I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment." I was 18. I was like, "This is it." I didn't get it. And I was devastated.

I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland," so we've got some strange names in our family.