Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

Some of my best friends in LA are devoutly religious people. I'm completely supportive and interested in people doing their own thing. That's a motto that I try to live by, and I hope that's how other people treat me. Live and let live.

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn't listen to them.