When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.

My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.

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.

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

That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

It's what I love about what I do and the life that I'm able to have and be able to just be so normal one day and be here the next...I feel so lucky to be able to do what I do.

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.