Zendaya

My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

I've loved Michael Jackson since the minute I was born. He's probably the most talented person ever. He was able to create such an amazing career and be probably the biggest star we've ever had.

I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.