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" My first proper credit was a small voice-over on an episode of 'The Sopranos' when I was, like, 11 or 12. "

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" I've made a few independent films now and a few movies with Disney, and I've done TV. "

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" I'm trying to be more put-together. My closets are very messy. I like Rebecca Minkoff; her clothes are casual, but cool. I love Band of Outsiders. And ASOS makes a lot of good stuff. I can get lost on their website for hours. I don't like to spend a lot of money on clothes. "

" I'm not good at Disney acting. I'm really not. I never was on that audition list, which I don't mind. I don't know. I look back, and I'm kind of wiping my forehead at the thought of, 'What if I had gone that route?' "

" I make notebooks for characters, and it kind of becomes a bible. "

" I was never good at that Disney/Nickelodeon kind of acting. It's not really my cup of tea. "

" I like pushing myself as an actor. "

" I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you. "

" I like to go swimming, and I like salty hair. "

" You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways, acting is a lot like that. "

" I try to miss as little school as possible. "

" I'm such a dork, but I really think there are derivatives to be found between story arcs and character motivations. And the way you evaluate functions is a really interesting way to look at stories and the way you act. I really believe it. "

" I like to read on the train. "

" 'Homeland' is intense, and I think it would be a hard show to watch if it were intense for 60 straight minutes. "

" I grew up kind of in the country, in western Georgia. And then I moved a lot closer to Atlanta, and I started doing plays, and when I started doing film, I think I really started to love it. "

" When I went to prom, I was in a group picture, and a parent zoomed in and took the picture of only me. I was weirded out, and later he was like, 'Sorry, I was sending that to my sister.' "

" I think it's cool to get to know designers. There is some anxiety, maybe, that after you've met a designer, you want to be loyal to them and wear their clothes. And sometimes it's just not my style. But you have to be honest, and I don't really want to lie. "

" I learned a lot from Cherry Jones, from the questions she asked and the opinions she had. "

" I like to make pies. That's kind of my new obsession - peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin. "

" I'm self-conscious about a lot of things. "

" Everybody gets lonely. "

" Before I turned 18, I had all these rules. Like, I could only work ten hours a day, and I had to go to school. "

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" I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started 'Homeland'. "

" I understood the feeling of being 17 and living with your parents somewhere, and then being 18 and living in New York and having a city at your disposal. "