Quotes from Miranda Cosgrove

I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers. She comes to our house. It's the best.

I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

A big part of why I wanted to go to college is to meet people and make friends.

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

I'm more into, like, colour than, like, the type of car and stuff. I don't know much about cars, so I'm just more into picking the right color.

I'm a big tandem bike rider... I've had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a competitive tandem bike rider one day.

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.

I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'Casablanca' a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn't like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it.

I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what happens to me during the day that I don't want to forget. So I have books filled with little things like that.

I'm on the Web a lot. I like to play games online. Sometimes I play Sims.

My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.

I've only had one serious boyfriend, but we dated for three years.

I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it's completely different. I have a teacher on set with me and I just work with her, one-on-one.

I'm an only child, and after making the movie [Yours, Mine and Ours], I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life.

I love entertaining and making people laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

I've feel like I've been doing TV shows most of my life.

It scared my mom to death when all my friends started driving. She always told me she wanted me to drive, but I think she kind of felt lucky that I didn't get my permit when all my friends did. I think that's been the hardest thing for her, watching me go out with my friends and literally drive away.

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

I definitely have guys that I'm friends with that I have a crush on, and you don't want to ruin the friendship.

I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I've texted so much, so I definitely text too much.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.

It [Dr Phil] was great. We had such a good time. Never a dull moment on set, considering the 18 kids. It never got boring.