I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.


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I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple cra...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.
TAYLOR SCHILLING
In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but no...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorne...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
TAYLOR SCHILLING
For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
Massages are my favorite. Sometimes just getting myself outside for a walk if I'm really busy ca...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about house...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do thin...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very s...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you ne...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
Coffee makes me go crazy.
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, '...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel g...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow. Whatever that looks li...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time i...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games ver...
TAYLOR PHINNEY
There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for ...
TAYLOR PHINNEY
It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who yo...
TAYLOR PHINNEY
I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.
TAYLOR PHINNEY
I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
TAYLOR PHINNEY
I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after th...
TAYLOR PHINNEY
When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potential...
TAYLOR PHINNEY
I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religi...
TAYLOR NEGRON
Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
TAYLOR NEGRON
We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about o...
TAYLOR NEGRON
I personally won't have anything live in my house that can't move the car on street-sweeping...
TAYLOR NEGRON
When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the peopl...
TAYLOR NEGRON
I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives ...
TAYLOR NEGRON
I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
TAYLOR NEGRON
I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
TAYLOR NEGRON
Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed und...
TAYLOR NEGRON
Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5'...
TAYLOR NEGRON
In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who h...
TAYLOR NEGRON
As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereot...
TAYLOR NEGRON
I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living he...
TAYLOR NEGRON
I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called ...
TAYLOR NEGRON
I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of sa...
TAYLOR NEGRON
My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
TAYLOR NEGRON
My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles wh...
TAYLOR NEGRON
These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cut...
TAYLOR NEGRON
For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having n...
TAYLOR NEGRON
Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How mu...
TAYLOR NEGRON
To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a ...
TAYLOR NEGRON