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.

I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.

Nobody cares about that. I do have guys every now and then who say - it's always guys by the way, it's never women - who say, "You were my childhood crush, can we date?" And I'm like, "There's something kind of creepy about that. Do you hear yourself?"

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

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.