Keala Settle

“It doesn't matter if you're a Victoria's Secret model or you're someone's 90-year-old grandma or you're a little kid who's getting bullied or you're that kid's bully - everybody feels like there's something going on that's more correct than what is. We all have to reach out to one another in that fear, and we'd be surprised to hear, 'Me, too.'”

“I was never one of those actors who believed, 'I'm so gonna be an ingenue.' I already knew that wasn't gonna happen, and I decided not to torture myself with it.”

“I've always been afraid of who I am and not knowing what I can do.”

“For me, I want to say whether or not you believe in God - or a universe of any kind that's watching over any of us - you can have faith that things will go your way as much as you want to, and they won't.”

“If someone puts a character in front of me - no matter what it is, whether there has been a film or not - I want to be that character, not imitate it. There's a difference - a big difference.”

“I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16.”

“I was born and raised in Hawaii.”

“I never got to see the circus... I was always in love with being a trapeze artist, though.”

“I'm an actress who likes to work as much as possible, so I'm very grateful for all these opportunities.”

“My mother played guitar by ear, and all of us sang except my father, bless his heart.”

“Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.”

“As a human being, you find a way to survive, moment by moment, every single day of your life.”

“Music was always a part of my life.”

“What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.”

“As you get older, whatever your struggles may be - how you sound, how you look, how you dress - you grow into yourself a little bit more. You end up realizing the world wants you and not a carbon copy of six other people.”

“We all have fears! Don't lie! We all have fears.”

“I've always been the biggest bully to myself.”

“I used to want to look like every European person that was being held up as a standard of beauty, whether in the industry or in life. Then I just realized that it's not in my genetic make-up. I decided instead to go for the gold in whatever I'm doing and just be as healthy as I can be.”

“Women put ourselves through so much. Really, everybody does; it's not a gendered thing. I think all of us are always gonna be tortured by some sense of inadequacy, no matter what. I don't know if there's a way to tell people not do this to themselves.”

“There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.'”