I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.

In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied a cream to our chests to make our breasts grow. I was 10.

Anything and everything at any given time is sort of the point I think. We're dealing in real situations and that's why we have our handlers there, to hopefully protect us from the bad, but yes; each show I think that sort of thing is going to go down because it's obviously not a perfect system and it's not a perfect world.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.