My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came to America, I thought I would be playing American, all the time. It was just weird how it worked out that I played more international characters.

When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.

The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect.

All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.

I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.

I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.

I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!