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“I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.”
“I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.”
“'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.”
“I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.”
“I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.”
“I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.”
“My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.”
“The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.”
“You want everyone to succeed in your family.”
“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 every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.”
“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'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.”
“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.”
“I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.”
“Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta.”
“I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.”
“Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.”
“I really actually enjoy auditioning.”
“My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.”