Diana Silvers

“I'm not a cool girl. I wish I was.”

“When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality.”

“When I step outside and think of the caliber of actors I've had the privilege of working with, it just blows my mind.”

“Very good female characters, that's all we want. It's happening, slow and steady, which I love. Hopefully, it gets a little quicker. Fast and steady, how about that? Either way, we want more good females.”

“The boy I was crazy about was super into photography, so I weaseled my way into AP Photo to impress him and spend more time with him. He never liked me back, but I ended up spending most my senior year in the darkroom - it became a sort of safe haven for me.”

“Like everyone in high school, like everyone in life, we all have this outer layer we put up to protect ourselves.”

“When I played Hope in 'Booksmart,' I was like, 'I could see myself with a woman.' Because, literally, I was seeing myself with a woman.”

“Photography is very personal to me. God knows how many rolls of film I have that I've never shared.”

“I was like, 'I'm going to win Wimbledon!' I was crazy competitive, leg-slapping, all of that. But when I was 12, I saw 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape,' and it just opened my eyes to what movies can do and how they change us, and I was like, 'This is what I want to do. This is what I have to do.'”

“I just want to do roles that are going to change one person's life.”

“I would love to play roles that continue to challenge and push me in different directions - emotionally, mentally, and physically as well.”

“I'm from Los Angeles. I grew up on the west side. I went to Pali High, Paul Revere, Country Canyon.”

“I was supposed to see Lorde on the 'Melodrama' Tour in New York with my best friend, but then I got a callback for 'Booksmart' in L.A. and couldn't make the concert. Thank God I got the part!”