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 haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.
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've always been kind of a voyeur.
The world of celebrity that comes with the world of art is not particularly interesting to me.
I love my family. We have a very rich, complicated relationship.
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.
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.
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.
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 was Jenny in 'Jenny and the School for Cats' when I was five years old. That was my first big break. Then I got to play the Artful Dodger in 'Oliver Twist,' and that was the most fun I've ever had.
I'm not super aware of what's the coolest thing and what everybody's doing or listening to or watching at any given time.
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.
I would recommend any young person who wants to be an actor to go and get some training.
I've become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it's been a part of my life for so long.
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.
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 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.
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.
My family is really supportive. We fight, and we talk, and we lie, and we tell the truth - not usually in that order - and I really enjoy growing with them and fostering that dynamic.
