It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.

Dance is such a stressful environment.

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.

I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

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

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.