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

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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 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 really enjoyed shooting in Ireland. The people are so lovely. I hope I don't offend anyone in saying this, but the nature reminded me of Americans: everyone was warm and open and easy to talk to. And Ireland is so beautiful and lusciously green. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I really loved getting to interact with an animal or a baby or a kid in a scene because they don't really know that you're acting. They don't know that this isn't reality. "

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

" If I changed my name, everyone would have just known that I changed my name. If I had been anonymous, it would have felt pretentious. It would seem like I'm trying to dodge something. I love my family and have such respect for their work, for their career and talents, and I'm very proud to be connected with them. "

" 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

" 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. "

" It's difficult to always have to be contextualized within the careers of your parents, and it's difficult not to feel like you can stand alone, but hopefully I'll earn the ability to stand alone over time. "

" 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. "

" I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not particularly interested in my phone. I'm interested in human contact. I think phones have created a certain social incapacity; it's made people socially deficient. "

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

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

" 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 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?' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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