Dove Cameron

“I would just say that human beings are stronger together. Relying on someone else is not a sign of weakness; it shows strength that you're able to accept that you need help.”

“My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in ways I'm still discovering!”

“I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The world is so harsh, so when stuff happens outside, you want to go to your family, but when stuff happens inside your family, you sort of start to feel like, 'I'm alone. There is no place I can go to where just nothing will happen to me.'”

“Sure, they can take your binder, but they can't take whatever special thing you have inside you.”

“I don't know that there's any rhyme or reason to bullying... it's not even the bully's fault, which is why it's such a difficult thing to combat.”

“'Hairspray' has never been irrelevant, which is, in some ways, heartbreaking.”

“I'm very competitive and academic.”

“It's so crazy to meet people you've known about since you were many feet shorter than you are now.”

“I think that every human - and this is something, you know, like, your years from 14 to, like, 23 are kind of, like, super, super existential, and you're figuring out life.”

“I made myself memorize how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism in under 3 seconds when I was 6 years old because my sister told me it was the longest word she knew.”

“'Barely Lethal' is a non-Disney project, and is with Samuel L. Jackson, Hailee Steinfeld, and Jessica Alba. It is a really, really phenomenal film.”

“Once, in high school, on a field trip away from school, some girls brought razors to shave their legs and threw them at me and told me to kill myself. But they were all insecure. They were angry, snapping at everybody.”

“Kristin Chenoweth had been my personal idol since I was, like, 6 or 7.”

“I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.”

“I think it works differently for everyone. Some people do amazing things with research, but for me, it just gets convoluted, and I start to think too much.”

“When you're 10, 11, 12, and you're watching your idols, you feel like you know them. I found more in common with these people when they talked in interviews than I did with my classmates.”

“I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.”

“Jessica Lange is my all-time favorite actress.”

“I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.”

“'Liv and Maddie' didn't start out as a twin show. I actually played a different character in the beginning, and it was neither of the twins.”