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Quotes
It's nice when people want your autograph,
but it's a little strange because I never expected it. I still kind of
think, 'Oh, who am I?'
I'm 26 years old. I don't need to be playing
16 anymore. Mentally and emotionally, I'm in such a different place than
those roles.
I was in a three-year relationship before I
met my husband, and it was pretty bad. The individual was never really
into family or anything of the sort. So I never thought I'd find
somebody who'd be so madly in love with me and that we'd have this
amazing connection and relationship.
We eloped. I wasn't, like, screaming to
everybody that I got married.
Sometimes I don't feel
like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any
of this.
It’s really hard to find roles for women
who are younger. Especially difficult with me because I look younger.
It’s hard to find roles where the character has a personality, a real
personality, and has things where… there are actually things going on.
Though I've turned 21, I
don't drink. I'm an old hag now. I'm just an old fart.
I
have very, very long hair it's, like, down to maybe half a foot above my
bottom, and the dress I wore had a very low back. I wanted to show it
off and also didn't want hair in my face. I didn't want to be putting my
fingers through it all the time and look gross. … People say that if
you're 21, you have to look a certain way. I think it's kind of hokey,
because you could be way younger than me and be much more civilized, and
you could be way older and not be. I think the hair thing was
unnecessary. I felt that I looked pretty nice.
I knew what I was getting into. I was real
excited about it. The people who were involved were passionate about it.
It makes it easier when everybody wants to be there and work their
hardest.
They say, "She's young" and
"Oh, I don't get her hair at the Oscars." People might be
shocked that I have good input on things. I like to be involved. When we
were shooting, I discovered that about myself. I'd go behind the camera
— not just because I wanted to see if I look good but because I want
to be involved. I love creativity. … But it's taken that I want to see
what I look like. Wait a minute, I'm not just an actor. I'm not just
some young girl who portrayed, maybe, a pretty or sexy role. That has
nothing to do with me. I like to be involved with everything, and
sometimes people are threatened by that.
Oh yeah. I moved up from Charleston, South
Carolina, when I was 14 and didn't know anybody. I was teased because I
came from the South. When we had the big 1994 earthquake, they teased me
that my chickens got loose. To those kids, anything Southern was [in a
hayseed drawl], "You talk like this, drive a tractor, and have a
farm." I guess I was a loner because I had one friend. It was about
doing the schoolwork and making it out of there. It was never about
enjoying high school. American Pie was my high-school experience.
I’m so bad at picking favorites, I’m bad
at singling anybody out. There are too many moments where I was just
amazed by my co-stars. Everybody had so many great qualities. When I
watch Sonny, there are so many scenes that I’m just blown away.
There’s a scene when James Franco is at his friend’s house and gets
mad, I mean that’s scene they shot when I wasn’t there. So many
other scenes we did together, I was just amazed by them. I was lucky to
work with him.
One of the things you learn being in the
public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious
issues, and, in the process, really help people. I've chosen to get the
word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous
- it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.
I hated it. I was always in detention
because I hated the uniform. It was navy and white with argyle socks,
and I'd always try and wear a vintage navy sweater with it. It was the
same color but didn't have the logo. So I was forever getting detention.
We couldn't wear anything wild or funky. It was so repressed.
I’ve done a lot of things that were cool
after American Beauty. But I think this was an opportunity to break out
further. I have an accent to work with. I had a dialect coach. The
American Pie movies were fun to work on, I mean, they’re comedy. We
had a great time making those movies. But this was really dark and deep.
I guess, because at the public school around
where I lived [Burbank, Calif.], there was a lot of heavy drug activity
and violence. So I got lucky. I wasn't so exposed to that.
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