People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put something out there that you felt and that meant something to you, and that it could be interpreted by many different people to mean many different things.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that

As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I was really interested in the idea of people who move here to get into the business, and some of them do become famous and then oftentimes they fall out of that fame in very terrible ways.