I like older boys, but they think, ‘She’s under age.’ I’d love to have somebody in mind when I sing.

When people come up to me and say, ‘You made it,’ I think, ‘But I’m not done yet. Not everyone’s heard my music.’ I want to be a household name.

“I’m not comfortable doing that. You shouldn’t send that message out, that tight clothes are what get you the attention. If it works for them, fine. But, it’s not for me.” - about the prospect of her dressing in revealing outfits similar to those of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera

I think it’s flattering when people say I’m a role model, but I don’t think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word ‘role model.’ I’m not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

People tend to see you in one light, and don’t think you can play people who are unlike who you are.

I’m a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it’s all a personal thing. I’m not someone who’ll say, ‘This is what I believe, and you should too!’ It’s more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me

I’m not an advocate for having sex or not having sex. It’s a personal decision. Whenever you feel ready, you’re ready.

[On gay rights] “When two people - regardless of gender - long to care for each other, to protect each other, to treasure each other, we should do everything we can to foster that.”

I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it’s kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don’t know about any others. A friend once told me it made her sad to think that if we were to pass away, I would go to heaven but our Jewish friend wouldn’t because she doesn’t believe in Jesus. That totally sent me over the edge! I’m happy with what I believe, but I’m open to the fact that there are people with different faiths, and they might be as passionate about theirs as I am about mine.

“A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it’s the greatest feeling in the world.”

“I don’t want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.”

Because I’m in an adult world and I’m really working, my age is just a number. It’s not really who I am.

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It’s made me more professional.

Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

I do think it’s possible to change for the better.

I don’t want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I’m a big musical theatre geek.

I just don’t want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It’s great cross-promotion.

I want to be in New York. It’s the place to be.

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it’s in my blood.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn’t the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

It’s a lot more fun to play the bitch than it is to play the perfect girl ’cause everybody has a bad side inside of them.

Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.

Music is my first love.

The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.

“Everybody wants to go to a club or watch a movie, and I have to stay home and do homework. How is that fair?”

“I think any girl is going to make time for a relationship if they really want it to happen… If you want it to happen, you’re going to make it happen.”

“If you really don’t have a passion for the music, you are going to crumble.”

“I’m extremely-extremely sensitive. I can cry at the drop of a hat. I’m such a girl when it comes to that. Anything upsets me. I cry all the time. I cry when I’m happy too”

“Sometimes I wonder why people say the things they do when they don’t know the whole story.”

“We are all different people, bottom line no one in this world is the same just because we all happen to sing pop music.”

“With all the pressures of the industry, and so many people trying to tell you how to dress and wear your hair and this and that - people are constantly throwing their opinions at you - sometimes you can have a weak moment and listen and end up doing the wrong thing, doing something that’s completely not yourself.”

As a blonde, this is such the image for the typical girl in the pop genre of music to have this blonde hair. I loved being a blonde but on a whim, I decided to color my hair.

As I get out of high school, I’m going to start college through correspondence.

By the time I was 10, my parents were finally persuaded enough to get me voice lessons and let me audition around and do a lot of theater.

Discovering that there were artists outside of the cliche of the ’70s helped me form the record’s skeleton.

For someone like Britney Spears, who did have her whole life scrutinized, it must have been terrible.

Girls will come up and give you a hug. Guys will stand in the background with their boys like, Yeah, I see you. Boys are so shy and intimidated to come up, and it’s like, Why?

Having a boyfriend who is in the industry, he’s obviously more understanding and supportive. I don’t really think you meet too many people who aren’t in the industry.

How weird must it be for an author, a writer, whose book has been so successful, to see his words come to life with two people he doesn’t know very much?

I don’t feel I’m the type of person that needs to preach.

I don’t know if you can automatically assume you can change a person.

I felt passionately about A Walk to Remember.

I got to relax. I wasn’t supposed to be the Goddess, the star of the movie, the starlet. It was just kind of fun playing the Plain Jane.

I have a laptop. I’m obsessed with getting online. I like to talk to people and see what they are listening to.

I have a theater background, and I started off doing plays, then I kind of shifted and did a bunch of TV commercials. Then I went back to strictly just the singing.

I have been writing quite a bit lately and hope to hook up and collaborate with some great songwriters.

I just signed with Warner Bros. I just changed labels and I’m really excited ’cause I’ve been writing a lot and hopefully get to record more songs.

I made the album by myself. I paid for it initially. The record company knew I was making the record, but I didn’t want a bunch of cooks in the kitchen.

I remember that Vanity Fair photo shoot we did, and everyone there was like 15 and 16 and 17, and I felt so old. I’m not used to feeling like the mother hen.

I think everyone is starting to get into writing their own music and stuff.

I want to make the best, coolest pop record I can make. I feel like I actually have something to say and write about. I haven’t in the past.

I want to start recording because music is my life.

I was such a big fan of the book by Nicholas Sparks.

I wasn’t looking for a lead role. I had a supporting role in The Princess Diaries and I was figuring I would continue that run for a little bit.

I would love to study American History or even musical theater, but I also feel like doing some extensive study course or something on the road to occupy my time.

I’m just this random girl who happened to live in Orlando. I grew up there, did all my training there, going to musical theatre camps and doing community theatre around town.

I’m more of the album track girl than the singles girl.

I’m not a teenager anymore, but you always feel like the young one around.

I’m not comfortable in my own skin yet. I don’t think a lot of teenagers out there are either. That’s just something that you learn as you mature and you get older.

I’m ready to show people what I’m all about.

I’m really so proud of this movie, and I’m so proud of that album.

I’m religious. Even the books that I’ve been reading in my spare time have a religious connotation.

I’m very excited to be part of a film that has something different to say.

I’ve been reading so many responses on the Internet and people are like, God, Mandy looks so ugly in this movie! And I’m like, Cool, I love it!

If someone cries when they see me it’s like, Why are you crying when you see me?

If you are lucky enough to have any bit of success in this industry, windows are going to open. Some people take advantage of it.

If you get emotional at points in the movie, you still walk out of the theatre with a smile on your face because it ends on a positive note.

In the music industry, you are in competition with everyone.

It is one of the biggest compliments that people my age and older like my music and have respect for me. It is the coolest feeling in the world.

It’s a lot more fun to play the bitch than it is to play the perfect girl ’cause everybody has a bad side inside of them.

Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.

My biggest challenge was in my own head, trying to get out of my mind that people were going to have these unrealistic expectations of me.

Never pass up an opportunity, because you don’t know who is sitting in the audience.

Performing is my favorite thing to do.

Sometimes a lot of movies out there cater to us and consider us to be kind of stupid, like they spell everything out for us.

The acting thing is something I’ve had in my heart since I started doing musical theatre when I was 10.

The comparisons don’t bother me anymore.

The first song I ever performed was Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Midler.

The fun of acting is playing someone different from yourself.

The main goal is to have as many people around the world hear your music as possible. So you are in competition with every single artist that releases material.

The music on the album is not actually music that I grew up listening to, but songs that I have fallen in love with it over the last few years.

There are people that go through their whole life and regret going to work every day, and every day, it’s like a new thing for me. It’s just so exciting.

To have the opportunity now at 17 to read scripts, have meetings with directors, producers, and possible co-stars, is amazing to me. It is beyond my wildest dreams.

We are all different people, bottom line, no one in this world is the same just because we all happen to sing pop music.

When I read the script, it was written in there that Hilary Faye would sing. I thought it was funny and appropriate.

When I’m on a film set, I miss being on stage and doing a video and having my band and being able to sing. So I feel blessed to be able to go back and forth between the two.

Why do I, Mandy Moore, get a record deal?

You just have to handle the situations as they come, basically. I’m ready for it. Whatever they have to throw at me, I’m ready to take it on.

You usually think of doing a movie and the glamour of Hollywood, of walking out of the trailer and feeling beautiful.