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When I Take On A Character, It's A Sacrifice. There's Something That You Give Up Every Time. I Want To Become These Characters, And I Want To Be Mysterious, But If You Know Too Much About Me, It's Not Going To Be Too Much Fun Watching Me Play A Character, Because It's Just Going To Be Me With A Mask On, Instead Of You Believing What The Mask Is.

I Wasn't Interested In Going To The School Dances. I Wasn't Interested In Going To The Football Games. What I Wanted Was To Be In My Room Painting My Walls And Doing Weird Stuff. That's What I Wanted And I Got To Do What I Wanted, So That, To Me, Is My High School Experience.

I Was Home-schooled, Was Always Very Close With My Mom And Was Very Straight-laced And Square. I Was Never The Rebellious One, And I Never Threw Hissy Fits.

I Had Started Acting When I Was 7, And I Was Always Wrong. I Would Always Get To The Very End [of The Audition], But I Wasn't A Perfect Package Of One Thing. I Wasn't A Cliche, And It Always Worked Against Me. I Wasn't Pretty Enough To Play The Popular Girl, I Wasn't Mousy Enough To Be The Mousy Girl. Then There Was A Tv Show That Toni Collette Was Starring In. And When A Role To Play A Girl Who Was Struggling With Identity Came, I Thought: "oh, This Is What I Was Supposed To Do. Everything's Leading Up To This Moment." I Was 18. I Was Like, "this Is It." I Didn't Get It. And I Was Devastated.

I Was 3 When I Told My Mom That I Knew What My Dharma Was And That I Wanted To Be An Actor.