Right when 'Liv and Maddie' had started, there was no roadmap for how to do a show where one girl played two. It's just not something that is often done, so we had nothing to refer to.
I was a huge show-choir girl!
Once, in high school, on a field trip away from school, some girls brought razors to shave their legs and threw them at me and told me to kill myself. But they were all insecure. They were angry, snapping at everybody.
If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.
I'm never not planning for my future house. Most of the files on my laptop are devoted to different rooms in my dream house. I'm embarrassing.
The first CD I ever bought was Gwen Stafani's first solo album. She was the light of my life when I was 8.
I think that every human - and this is something, you know, like, your years from 14 to, like, 23 are kind of, like, super, super existential, and you're figuring out life.
I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The world is so harsh, so when stuff happens outside, you want to go to your family, but when stuff happens inside your family, you sort of start to feel like, 'I'm alone. There is no place I can go to where just nothing will happen to me.'
When I'm acting, I just come up with people I've known, and I stick with it.
It's so crazy to meet people you've known about since you were many feet shorter than you are now.
Samuel L. Jackson is such a riot. He's so incredibly normal, and he's a blast to be around. I can't even describe to you how he's just sort of everybody's crazy uncle.
'Cloud 9' is an action/romantic comedy that focuses on the competitive world of snowboarding. We have glamorised it to so that all the players are on the cover of magazines, have all the interviews, and be on the television: so it is very high stakes.
As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.
When I was younger, I barely left my room because I was busy watching clips of my favorite actors and performers on the Internet.
At school, I felt out of place. I was bullied. I would think, 'These kids don't like me, they don't accept me,' but I felt like in the entertainment industry, I would fit in.
I have so many peers who say, 'I need to get away from my parents,' because even though they love the business and they love their parents, they feel like they are letting their parents down if they don't work to the bone. As a parent, you should be the safe place.
Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.
I honestly think what skyrocketed me into professionalism was learning how to play two people and still live through the day.
I know that sounds dramatic, but shooting everything twice and going through the emotions of two different humans was crazy for me at 16. In terms of my career, that was something that really, really formed me.
I believe one's responsibility as a role model begins and ends with their perception of what a good role model is.
