I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult.

People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls.

Sure, I love to read, and I love to learn, but I was always nerdy that way.

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

I remember reading To Kill A Mockingbird when I was 12. What I liked about it is that it was all seen through a child's eyes. It was Harper Lee going back and writing it from the way a child would see those things.

I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.