I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.

I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11. So that was when I was taken out of the school system... I think the longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life. I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.

You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never expected.

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.