Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

I'm lucky because my two best friends are from kindergarten so they never thought that it was a big deal that I was in acting; they don't even ever talk about it. They still act all confused, like, 'What's going on?' when we go places and people come up to me.

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

I was devastated by Gene Wilder's death.

My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I thought that's a great idea, where your omniscient narrator is death. I'm glad he had that idea because I wouldn't have been able to work so well with it.

To be in touch with death, and the darker side of life, makes the lighter side more enjoyable.

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.