I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.

You look at people like Gena Rowlands, but she had [John] Cassavetes to write these amazing roles for her.

Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"

I'm not a drug user myself. I'm too little to take drugs - my body can't take it.

I'm the type who'd rather not work than work on something I'm not into. I've done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.

One thing you have to have when you act is energy.