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.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.