My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?

That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.

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've never considered myself cool, and I don't think I ever will be. Honestly, it's better that way. It's much less pressure.

There were things that I knew that I was going to keep to myself.

Children change a lot in terms of personality. Camaraderie that you feel with somebody might not be there a year later. That group might not have the same chemistry. So I completely understand why they're rushing into it, because they probably feel like they have to.

I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that.