Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

I'm very claustrophobic.

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

Sometimes I want to do something that's really funny and other times I read an indie script that is going to be made for nothing but I want to do it because I think that I can connect with something in the story.

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

Applying sunscreen became a habit that now I use in my daily life.