Raven-Symone quotes:

My parents are my role models. I also love Halle Berry, Robert DeNiro, Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Tom Cruise and Jennifer Lopez. When I see their work, I get engulfed in it. They really capture me.

Behind closed doors, I'm a crafty person.

I love to see the smiles on people's faces when you cook for them. I love to go to different restaurants. I want to cook because I know this acting isn't going to last forever, and I want something to fall back on. It's another way to make people smile.

He's a very funny and very nice man. When you read the script, you want to stick with it. But when you're with Eddie Murphy you've got to improvise. He's always making jokes and making me crack up when the camera's on.

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry.

I'm an American. I'm not an African-American; I'm an American.

My perfect guy right now would be a mannequin - one that comes alive only when I need him to!

I think our society is all about judgment, which is so rude and disrespectful.

I'm not perfect. This is how I was raised. If I wasn't in the industry, I'd be the same person.

I can finally get married! Yay government! So proud of you

I am obsessed with my hairstyles.

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

I have a responsibility to not look crazy in public. I don't want to be the person where later in life when I have kids, to say, 'Don't do this' and my kids go, 'But Mom, you did it.'

It's important for young people to know that they are made the way they are made and they're beautiful and that's how they're supposed to be.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

I believe you should be comfortable in your skin no matter what you go through - emotionally or whatever - as long as you're healthy.

Be very professional because it will get you a lot further. You have to treat people with the same respect whether they're signing your checks or cleaning up after you.

I used to breed poodles. I liked them because they were fluffy and so cute - and honestly, they make a lot of money when you sell them!

Don't spend all of your time trying to be like someone else because you can never be them and they can never be you.

Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that's to always learn from it.

I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, 'Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous. I'm like, 'I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically speaking, I thought I was amazing.'

The way we function in society - it doesn't make sense sometimes because it's all based on how you look and then how badly you should feel after you eat the food we just advertised. And then when someone in the public eye goes up or down, it's like a major moment.

Everybody takes breaks, and I decided to take mine. I wanted a chance to wake up at two in the afternoon and not be a subject of entertainment. I wanted to be a human being. At certain times and certain years, I felt like the Energizer bunny. That gets old very quickly.

I've definitely had obstacles in my career - my whole entire career - to stay a certain weight, to get smaller than I have been, but I look at my family, I look at where I come from and that's not really in our genes.

Don't put your all into someone if they treat you like dirt.

I believe you should be comfortable in your skin no matter what you go through - emotionally or whatever - as long as youre healthy.

I never said I wasn't Black"¦ I want to make that very clear. I said, I am not African-American. I never expected my personal beliefs and comments to spark such emotion in people. I think it is only positive when we can openly discuss race and being labeled in America.

I want to be labeled 'a human who loves humans.'

I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.

Knowing that I make somebody's day better is all that matters at the end of the day.