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" 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! "

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" The thing about acting that's unlike any other art form is that it's collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your acting won't succeed if the lighting design doesn't succeed or sets don't succeed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You want to put out good vibes for the viewers, even if so many stories that have to be told and that need to be told have a lot of darkness in them, because the world has a lot of darkness in it. "

" 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. "

" I was given a new coat as a high school graduation gift. "

" Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others. "

" 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. "

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You

True

" I have definitely emulated my mom's style more than anyone's. But that may be mostly to do with how often I steal her clothing. "

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Style

Steal

" 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. "

" There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things. "

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

" Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me. "

" When I was in my early and mid-teens, my style changed constantly. My clothing was inspired by 'Annie Hall' for a while, by a yoga teacher, a flower child, a pirate... name it. "

" I've always been kind of a voyeur. "

" I think valuing what your body can do over how your body looks is the No. 1 advice I would give to young women about how to have healthy body image. It's not, 'Do these pants fit?' It's 'Can I do a split?' "

" I've become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it's been a part of my life for so long. "

" 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. "

" Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier than anything else. "

" When I heard the BBC was making 'Little Women,' I rushed to audition. "

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

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" I hate technology and cellphones. I hate having to have one all of the time. I don't tweet or buzz or bing or whatever! It's a conscious thing - I hate the way that it can take over young people's lives. "

" Men should be able to see themselves in female characters and female strength, just as much as women are able to see themselves in male characters. "

" 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. "

" In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye. "

" 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'm not interested in hiding from the fact that my parents are actors. I'm proud of them! It's very ordinary to pursue a career that your parents do, but when it's in the public eye, it becomes a complicated thing. "

" 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. "