I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!

When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.