I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

I was at awards shows and felt really lost so it was good to play someone who was really lost.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.

As an actress you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood. Working 14 hours a day isn't sustainable, but I prefer it to doing fewer films. I might as well be doing the thing that I wanted to do my whole life.

My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.

I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever.