I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.