Hilary Duff Quotes

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"You can be edgy without showing off your boobs."

"I love clothes. I can`t control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and makeup. I`m the kind of person who doesn`t like to wear things over and over again."

Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone`s uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.

I love clothes. I can`t control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and make-up. I`m the kind of person who doesn`t like to wear things over and over again.

It`s crazy and so surreal. I feel like such a normal person, yet everybody around the world knows my music, my movie, my name and my face. It`s crazy sometimes, but I`m so flattered. It`s a good feeling. - on her life and career.

(Dealing with mean girls in school) "I switched schools in the middle of second grade, and it was tough because I had to go right into a new school where I didn`t know anybody. I made friends eventually, but then when I started acting in California, a lot of those people were really mean to me. I`d come home, and they`d be like `Well, haven`t you booked anything yet?` It was embarrassing. They just didn`t understand how hard it was and that things don`t just happen overnight."

I don`t think the Disney Channel gives us enough credit for the age range Lizzie McGuire actually has. College students come up to me, grandparents, famous people. It`s really funny.

It sounds cheesy but I think my life`s kinda like a fairy tale. I worked really hard, but I`m very, very lucky too. I`m just 16 and I`ve done so many amazing things. I travel the world, I have fans who support me and I get to do what I love - make movies, sing and really be myself. I have a beautiful family, a great support system and wonderful friends - and I go shopping every week! I`m so lucky, but it`s not necessarily like A Cinderella Story.

We`re still a very tight-knit family, even though we live apart a lot. And now Haylie and I get to work together more and more. We`re really close.

I think ambition can be having something that you`re good at and love to do.

(On her short relationship and break up with Aaron Carter) "He was my first real boyfriend and we really were in love, but we were, like, fourteen! Who cares?!"

In high school, kids deal with such harsh things that people don`t realize can really affect their entire lives. They are so interested in getting the boyfriends and wearing low cut shirts so the boys will like them. That shouldn`t be their goal. They shouldn`t do things for other people, they should do things if they have dreams of their own and really work hard for that.

I love doing emotional scenes. As I`ve had a perfect life I don`t really have much to pull from. But it`s really fun and not that challenging. It`s almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That`s a really hard thing.

As a child I was shy. Haylie would be the one to go up and talk to people.

It is heartbreaking to see the devastation on TV. People are missing family members and they have absolutely nothing left, not even food or water. I want to do everything I can to help those who have survived to help rebuild their lives. (On helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina)

I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn`t let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom.

My sister (Haylie Duff) and I are best friends and we get along so well. She is so talented and inspiring to me. She`s my role model.

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

We raise so much money for hospitals, but it`s not just about that. Anybody can come up with a bunch of money to give to somebody. It`s about going to a hospital and hanging out with the kids and dancing and singing with them or giving underprivileged kids a chance to go to a theme park for a day or rebuilding a playground. I love it so much. It`s really gratifying. - on her work for the charity Kids With a Cause.

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven`t done or some place that I`ve never been or don`t even know. It`s just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.

I think girls feel like they`re not cool unless they have a boyfriend or they don`t feel comfortable or happy with themselves--that`s not true! You gotta be independent! You gotta show the power!

At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.

I also love Dido and Nelly Furtado and people who are really into their music like that. And I love Renee Zellweger.

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

I love clothes. I can't control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and make-up. I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to wear things over and over again.

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.

When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.