I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.

There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations and see what they say.

I don't do well when I don't work.

In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.

I'm just a relationship girl. I fall in love and I usually have long relationships. I like getting to know people well and having substantive, long relationships.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

There's no such thing as cheating when you're 18. That's just true. I'm very endeared by this notion of the way adolescents practice being grown ups and practice for adult morality. I remember when I was 15 and people were starting to date and someone cheated on someone. They'd say, 'He cheated on her. You know what they say, once a cheater always a cheater.'