"When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater."
"I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater."
"Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool."
"What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people."
"I really actually enjoy auditioning."
"The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist."
"I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about."
"And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7."
"I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening."
"And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something."
"I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better."
"I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me."
"And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character."
"I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go."
"Yes, I don't read books for entertainment."
"I'm the curvy one of the family."
"I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere."
"I've always loved being a student."
"I've always had a complex about being taken seriously."
"I get way too much happiness from good food."
"I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care."
"I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother."
"Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta."
"I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it."
"I've only done one shoot where it's modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her stand behind the photographer and do poses."
