Hyland Quotes

#1. You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!

Sarah Hyland

#2. I just filmed a movie with my boyfriend, an indie film called 'Conception.' And it's kind of like an R-rated version of 'Valentine's Day.' So it's like all about eight couples, and me and my boyfriend play one of them together. And that was a lot of fun.

Sarah Hyland

#3. I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes.

Sarah Hyland

#4. Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.

M. J. Hyland

#5. Law gave me some structure ... all these rules and internal disciplines.

M. J. Hyland

#6. What I decide to wear literally depends on how I'm feeling that day.

Sarah Hyland

#7. I'm more of a homebody type. I don't want to look like I want to be in the public eye. I didn't become an actress to be famous.

Sarah Hyland

#8. I love living in L.A. It's quieter. It's much more relaxing. I'm living in a house for the first time ever. I have a backyard for the first time ever; a dog for the first time ever. So it's a lot of firsts, and I love it so much. It's just so different. It's a nice change of pace.

Sarah Hyland

#9. I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

M. J. Hyland

#10. I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.

Sarah Hyland

#11. I'm very competitive. When I was, like, four, I would see a Shake 'N Bake commercial and see a little girl on that and think, 'I can do that. I might be better.'

Sarah Hyland

#12. Twitter is awesome to share news with fans, but I would never choose to only have social media and put everything in my life on display.

Sarah Hyland

#13. I have really big alien eyes, so the more mascara the better.

Sarah Hyland

#14. Hey, I know you're beaten down. But get up. Get up until you can't anymore. Then, when you go, you go knowing you gave it all.

Andy Hyland

#15. I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.

M. J. Hyland

#16. I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

M. J. Hyland

#17. I've always been a fan of Nintendo. My first memories of playing games are on my Nintendo 64 with 'Mario Kart,' so when I found out that Nintendo 3DS made a fashion game, I was drawn to it. 'Style Savvy Trendsetters' is great because anyone can play it.

Sarah Hyland

#18. I just love the color purple on me, because it goes really well with my eye color.

Sarah Hyland

#19. I never went to college, so I've never actually met a frat guy.

Sarah Hyland

#20. A lot of people don't know I can sing because I don't, like, post it everywhere.

Sarah Hyland

#21. I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.

M. J. Hyland

#22. 'Modern Family' has definitely opened up a lot of doors and I will always be grateful.

Sarah Hyland

#23. I love Neutrogena's Makeup Remover Cleansing Wipes. They get all my makeup off and are really moisturizing.

Sarah Hyland

#24. People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

Sarah Hyland

#25. I feel like Jonah Hill would be a good selfie, or Jennifer Lawrence. They'd be really good ones ... Historic.

Sarah Hyland

#26. My eyes are so big that, weirdly, I feel like an alien if my eyelashes don't match their intensity. I like to curl my lashes to the point where they're sticking straight up and then put on a ton of mascara!

Sarah Hyland

#27. I wish I was taller or curvier, but I'm happy with the way I look.

Sarah Hyland

#28. You're in everyone's homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really define you as this character that you portray.

Sarah Hyland

#29. Friends are hard to come by in L.A., especially in the entertainment industry. I've known a lot of people who hang out with someone because they're working on a show, and as soon as that show gets canceled, they find someone new.

Sarah Hyland

#30. I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.

M. J. Hyland

#31. From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.

M. J. Hyland

#32. If darkness is really not darkness at all, but rather, the absence of light, then my flaws are not really flaws at all, but rather, the absence of you. ~ Christopher Poindexter

Beth Hyland

#33. It is always sad when two people have been thinking the same thing at the same moment and neither can find a way to say it out loud.

M. J. Hyland

#34. When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.

Sarah Hyland

#35. It's chaotic. I have heard blood-curdling screams, and every time I hear it I think someone's being brutally murdered, but I realize it's a werewolf ...

Sarah Hyland

#36. I'm friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I'm posting a picture of me and my friend.

Sarah Hyland

#37. I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.

Sarah Hyland

#38. Lately, I've been playing very fashion-forward, popular girls, which is great because it's led me to things like this Nintendo 3DS 'Style Savvy' campaign. It'd be fun to do something a bit dorkier - or quirkier!

Sarah Hyland

#39. Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good!

M. J. Hyland

#40. I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.

Sarah Hyland

#41. As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.

M. J. Hyland

#42. I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.

M. J. Hyland

#43. I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.

M. J. Hyland

#44. Don't get your ambissions mixed up with your abilities

Peter Hyland

#45. I would say at times I am a 'Glamoholic.' But I am definitely more laid back than glamorous. I think it takes a lot of effort and sometimes I just want to be in jeans.

Sarah Hyland

#46. I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family.'

Sarah Hyland