It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer.

I was coming off of The O.C. and had very little interest in doing another teen drama. And then I got sent theGossip Girl book series, and I was like, 'I might not be ready to leave high school after all.'

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part can really emerge and surprise you.

You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.

Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.