I'm sort of coming of age into a different time of acting, and I feel kind of like a kid again. I used to think that I could climb anything, do anything. But I've just been like a skinny white girl my whole life.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.