“So many of my friends are older, and the people I work with are older. I guess I’ve gotten used to hearing people say, “Oh, you’re so young,” even though I never really agreed with that. Now I get their perspective.”

Once people see you pulling off one role, they think youre a safe bet to do a similar role.

Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.

I know that my look is more “toothpaste model” as opposed to artsy, which sucks because I can play those roles.

I just try to keep healthy more so than trying to be thin.

I kind of left everyone behind in Australia – all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend.

It’s fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work.

I love flying so much. I even airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can’t have emails go through. It’s undisturbed.

I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me.

I try to remind myself that all of this could be over tomorrow, because I could wake up and magically be 35 feet tall and not be able to act in movies anymore.

I was in a movie for five minutes where I play tennis and I was given five tennis lessons for free. I never had a tennis lesson. I was like, that’s awesome! When else would I have taken up tennis?

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.

I was always very dramatic – my family would probably use the word ‘dramatic’ – as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.

I don’t even know how to Direct Message someone on Instagram. I still write letters.

Obviously social media has had a massive impact on the fame game, but not in a positive way. But it can be for some.

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls – family, health, friends, integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

There it was: a few friends, laughter, and the safest place on earth.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.