I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.

You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.

When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.

I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.