Quotes

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

With any second season, it's a tricky balance between keeping what fans loved and also making sure it feels new.

The United Nations is calling this the decade of action, from 2020 to 2030, because if we don't take immense action, there will be irreversible damage. If we don't, we are looking at an increasingly difficult world to survive in.

I'm actually an only child with very supportive parents, so I didn't have the sibling rivalry to draw from.

I believe that if today's youth work together raising our collective voice, we can affect the positive environmental change that Planet Earth needs so desperately.

I hope to be a source of change and inspiration to my peers, empowering them to reach out and take action that will ensure the healthy survival of all of our species and ecosystems.

I'm 15 and everything I'm doing right now is really exciting to me, so, actually, whatever I'm into at the moment, I'm somehow able to stay very focused on. I just keep moving forward.

Billions are spent in advertising every year to make you think horrible things are good for you and to get your money for things that will kill you.

Because of social media today, the youth have more power in their hands than they've ever had.

You should cut down on your plastic consumption. Go get a reusable water bottle.

It's always fun to do another season of The Umbrella Academy.'

I always had an idea of how Five should be and it was very funny to entertain that idea when I got an audition for it.

When you go out to eat, bring a fork from home instead of using a plastic single-use utensil and ask them to hold the straw or use a reusable one.

I've always looked at the world of Umbrella Academy' with the world that I live in.

I wrote Time' while I was filming 'The Umbrella Academy' and it is a tribute to the journey of my character on the show as well as to the music of My Chemical Romance, but it is also about the idea of living fully in the present moment.

I found out that the animal agriculture business has a huge impact on our climate, so by cutting down on your meat and dairy consumption, you can have a huge impact and help the environment.

I am committed to lending my voice and participating in action campaigns to support the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals that must be achieved by 2030.

As an actor, the first day of any production is the most stressful.