My weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When I do an audition, there is a script and it has a first page that has the names of all the characters. I'm like, “Let me see that real quick, I wanna see what my name is gonna be.

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

My friends are the friends I've had forever, that's kept me very sane.

My grandmother was German. She didn't teach any of her children German. She really wanted them to be American. And now, she's since passed away, I get so frustrated sometimes. I'm like, "Oh, Oma, why didn't you teach your kids German?" My dad would have spoken German to me from birth, and I would have spoken German.

I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.

It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.