Quotes from Debby Ryan


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I can look back at things I've done and said and worn and be completely humiliated by them, but I can never say it wasn't me. I feel really honored to say that.


My mom always makes the whole family pile into the car and drive around to look at the Christmas lights. My brother and I never want to do it, but my mom just loves it!


I grew up moving around. I went to seven different schools, so I know what it's like to be that new girl and have to not only know who you are but also take that into foreign circumstances and know how to respond.


I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.


Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.


When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.


Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.


I think what's great about your community is that it's different than anyone else's. Look around. What do you want to change? What needs to be built, or what's valuable and needs to be maintained? Is it the people? Local animals? Your parks or gardens? Hospitals?


With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.


I work with kids, and I see certain things, so I realize now why my mother was so horrified and overprotective of everything that I watched.


I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.


Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.


Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.


The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.


T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.


Natalie Portman never looks back, ever. Ever!


More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.


I'm very practical and realistic.


I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.


I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.