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" I love Katharine Hepburn. I love Liesl in 'The Sound of Music.' I love Julie Andrews. I love Audrey Hepburn. "

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" I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach. "

" I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life. "

" There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable. "

" What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver. "

" I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist. "

" The truth is, I have made very few public appearances, and when I have, my parents have been very careful to allow me to have my own experience. "

" I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I'd learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day. "

" Sometimes the world will tell you that you do what you do for a different reason than your reason. And if you let them convince you that that's your reason, it will become your reason, and you will lose track of yourself. "

" The world of celebrity that comes with the world of art is not particularly interesting to me. "

" My family is really supportive. We fight, and we talk, and we lie, and we tell the truth - not usually in that order - and I really enjoy growing with them and fostering that dynamic. "

" I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate about storytelling and about books. "

" I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and then you handwrite in cursive, in fountain pen, your essays out on beautiful paper and you bind it together into a book that you hand in at the end of the course. "

" I've never been interested in a career in modelling, I was interested in my independence. When I was in school, modelling was what I needed to reach independence without having to leave. "

" I do care a lot about what I wear, but in a way that is about comfort and practicality, and I always want to look like me. "

" I'm not super aware of what's the coolest thing and what everybody's doing or listening to or watching at any given time. "

" I was Jenny in 'Jenny and the School for Cats' when I was five years old. That was my first big break. Then I got to play the Artful Dodger in 'Oliver Twist,' and that was the most fun I've ever had. "

" In the first two projects I've worked on professionally, I've been doing ensemble work with other young women, which I think is pretty cool. And they both were directed by and written by women. It's been a wonderful experience of real ensemble support and women lifting each other up, and I feel really lucky for that. "

" One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave. "

" When you're growing up with a learning disability, it shoots your confidence and belief in what you can accomplish academically; it really damages it. "

" Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists. "

" My parents are actors, and I'm the oldest of my siblings - I have three younger sisters and a brother who's my best friend. We're a close-knit, complicated family, but we spend a lot of time together, even though we live in different houses. We're a rambunctious gang! "

" Viola Davis, Patti Smith, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Julianne Moore. I could go on forever listing names. However... my greatest inspirations have, without a doubt, been my teachers, friends, and family. "

Friends And Family

" I would recommend any young person who wants to be an actor to go and get some training. "

" I have sometimes felt pressure to dress a certain way because of everyone else. You know what I mean? Girls in high school and strangers on the street have put way more pressure on me to dress a certain way than my mom or dad. "

" When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller. "

" It's really easy as an actor just starting out to get into the mindset that you only get one break. But my parents have shown me that's not true. "

" In my living room, I was always playing guitar and writing songs and singing them. My dad and I would always sing together - only for friends and family, but always since I was a little girl. "

" I have a wonderful, supportive relationship with my family. I get lots of advice from them about all kinds of things. "