Penn Badgley

“You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.”

“What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.”

“I'm grounded, I can say that. I can say that. I am, and it's great. I don't know where it comes from. But I've always been like that.”

“Like, if you are a celebrity, then anyone will let you be in a film or on a TV show, and if you're an actor, chances are if you are successful, you are becoming a celebrity.”

“I've been on over 1000 auditions.”

“All are essentially equal in the eyes of God.”

“If God exists, then we are spiritual beings, and we have souls, and we are noble inherently.”

“I realize I stare at everyone, especially when I'm walking down the street. I'm just a curious person.”

“I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.”

“In 'Gossip Girl,' I was far too judgmental of everything that was happening, because I was young.”

“I've always loved music. I listen to music the way a lot of actors watch movies.”

“I don't think I could truly value human love until I developed divine love.”

“If there's anything the name #MeToo calls to us, it's that there's a lot more dimension to the equality of men and women and the empowerment of women, which also is like the empowerment of men.”

“I'm quite monogamous. Thoroughly monogamous.”

“For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible.”

“Because I came into fame so early on, I've never done that. I don't investigate through the Internet about people who I know in the same way that I think most people do because I know what that's like to be on the other end of it. I think it gave me a certain kind of discipline, or empathy.”

“Money is... I'm very conscious of it because I have it. It's powerful, man. It can change you ever so slightly, ever so slowly, and all of a sudden you're addicted to a million-dollar lifestyle and you've got no choice but to make a bad movie.”

“When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they're cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them.”

“When it comes to the fame side of things. I don't think anybody, whether they're famous or not, could claim to understand that phenomenon or have any sort of power over it.”

“I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.”