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1. I’ve never really been one of those girls who’s scared of showing a bit of flesh.
2. I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.
3. I was honestly never a huge school person.
4. I still don’t really think about acting that much. I just do it.
5. I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.
6. I think it’s an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life’s been rough for you. That’s a really admirable way to go through your life.
7. When it’s a love scene with someone you actually love, there’s no feeling like, ‘Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?’ You know what your boundaries are — or what they aren’t, I suppose.
8. Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I’m completely comfortable with and open about.
9. I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we’re all nuts on some level. I think you’ve gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn’t rebel in the traditional sense.
10. I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.
11. My sexuality is something I’m completely comfortable with and open about. There’s a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.
12. There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.
13. None of the characters I’ve played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn’t be acting.
14. If I don’t do laundry today, I’m gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.
15. Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don’t have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I’m constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that’s it.
16. We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn’t a big research show. With the ‘Wounded Knee’ project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we’re talking about.
17. I like shows or films or books that have messages but don’t beat people over the head with them.
18. It’s great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you’re leaving your other life behind.
19. Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in — figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone’s problems that you don’t necessarily actually know anything about.
20. Just because I do what I do doesn’t mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.