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.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.