Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.

It sounds corny to say, but it was really inspiring seeing kids that were just living and connecting with people. That was something I really understood, the need and want for connection, and fun, and it not needing to be sympathetic, just sort of good fun.

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

I think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling your nerves when you walk into an audition because you're on stage from a young age.