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" A lot of times, I feel like people come up to me because they think I'm like my character in 'Easy A', or because they've seen me in interviews, but really what they're a fan of is a movie or a character. "
Easy
Feel
Character
" Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer - it's like 125 degrees - so my mom, my brother and I would go to the beach for two months to escape the heat. "
Heat
Beach
Brother
" At first, when you go to premieres and award shows, you're thinking, 'How the hell am I here? All these people I've never met are here, and it's so cool!' And then, as time goes on, it's a little bit like, 'Ah... it's more like work.' "
Hell
Thinking
Cool
" Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting. "
You
Love
Drama
" Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops. "
Never
Success
Me
" Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter. "
Crying
Me
Much
" He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin. "
Talk
Movies
Imagine
" I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater. "
Comedy
Acting
Youth
" I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like, be a part of movies that have the same idea that the movies that impacted me have. I'd like to be able to do that for people. "
Same
Ideas
Like
" If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion. "
Emotion
Anything
Feel
" I had a trainer during 'Spiderman,' and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when I'm holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I have in me, that's where it comes out. That's not the kind of working out I want to do. "
Kind
Rage
Me
" I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety. "
Leave
Child
Therapy
" I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with. "
You
Friend
Choose
" I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills. "
Working
Keep
Bills
" I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it. "
Live
Angel
Mean
" I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great! "
Women
Thinking
Crazy
" I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time. "
Stupid
Crazy
Time
" I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that. "
Before
Left
Person
" I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way. "
Great
Stone
Say
" I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head. "
God
House
I Am
" I'm not one of those shoppers where I go to a store and I'm like, trying it on, I'm not sure, 'Oh, can you put this on hold?' No. It's either love it or hate it. And it's the same way with scripts. I usually know within the first 10 pages. If I don't latch into it by then, then it's not going to happen. "
Hate
Know
Way
" I'm not very computer savvy. "
Very
Computer
Savvy
" I'm shockingly terrible at action movies. "
Action Movies
Terrible
Movies
" In general, I get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to. "
Nervous
Say
Talking
" I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar. "
Really
Spelling
Grammar
" I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner. "
Funny
Live
Night
" I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing. "
People
Care
Honesty
" I think there are plenty of soulmates out there. That's what I choose to believe. "
Think
Out
I Think
" I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun. "
Want
Fun
Women
" It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing. "
You
School
Preparation
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