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

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" 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 really love my family. The more independence that I get and the more freedom that I have, the more interested I am in being a dedicated and involved family member. "

" 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. "

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

" If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession. "

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" 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 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. "

" 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! "

" 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'm a real nature girl, and I love the Earth. "

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" 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. "

" It can't be articulated enough, that feminism means the desire to have equality between men and women. I believe that, and I act on those beliefs by going to marches and making a difference where I can. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product - your job is to make a director's vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying. "