Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get.

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.

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

I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else.

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

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.