Leighton Meester Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Leighton: I could almost compare them [spiders] to a weird looking mouse.

Leighton: They [tarantulas] don’t understand commands. So, it’s not like when you say ‘Cut’ that they just stop moving and crawling all over you.

Leighton: They [Chilean Rose Hairs spiders] walk slowly and are not imposing creatures at all.

Leighton (about her younger brother having a brain tumor): My mom remained strong enough to get him through that time and all I could do is to say, ‘Mommy, I love you, please don’t be sad.’

Leighton (about her younger brother having a brain tumor): I knew what was going on, but I didn’t totally understand. A doctor at Miami Children’s hospital operated and took out the tumor.

Leighton: They had spiderwranglers, which made me a little bit more at ease, but the truth is that you can’t tame spiders.

Leighton: My mother has been my manager ever since [moving to New York].

Leighton: Even the overhead like rent or parking your car, living in the city or out of city and paying less and having a commute.

Leighton: Up until that point I was a regular Florida kid.

Leighton (about working with Frank Perreti): It was cool having him around. He had a good amount of say about how things were going on the set.

Trivia

Leighton's real-life brother was a US Air Force Academy cadet who was accused of raping an eighteen-year-old female cadet in 2002.

Leighton's Astrological sign is Aries.