33 Quotes by Raven-Symone

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

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.

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.

I'm not one for a public display of my life.

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

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.

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.

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 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.'