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" As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product - your job is to make a director's vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying. "
Faith
Responsibility
Job
" Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier than anything else. "
Much
Way
Only
" I do care a lot about what I wear, but in a way that is about comfort and practicality, and I always want to look like me. "
Comfort
Want
Me
" If I changed my name, everyone would have just known that I changed my name. If I had been anonymous, it would have felt pretentious. It would seem like I'm trying to dodge something. I love my family and have such respect for their work, for their career and talents, and I'm very proud to be connected with them. "
Respect
Work
Proud
" If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession. "
Different
Day
Every Day
" I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and then you handwrite in cursive, in fountain pen, your essays out on beautiful paper and you bind it together into a book that you hand in at the end of the course. "
Together
Learning
End
" I hate technology and cellphones. I hate having to have one all of the time. I don't tweet or buzz or bing or whatever! It's a conscious thing - I hate the way that it can take over young people's lives. "
Time
Young
Technology
" I have a wonderful, supportive relationship with my family. I get lots of advice from them about all kinds of things. "
Wonderful
Relationship
Family
" I have definitely emulated my mom's style more than anyone's. But that may be mostly to do with how often I steal her clothing. "
Style
Steal
More
" I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist. "
Always
Farmer
Professor
" I have sometimes felt pressure to dress a certain way because of everyone else. You know what I mean? Girls in high school and strangers on the street have put way more pressure on me to dress a certain way than my mom or dad. "
Mom
Me
Dress
" I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one. "
Because
Diary
Me
" I love Katharine Hepburn. I love Liesl in 'The Sound of Music.' I love Julie Andrews. I love Audrey Hepburn. "
Audrey Hepburn
Love
Music
" I love my family. We have a very rich, complicated relationship. "
Very
Rich
Love
" I'm a real nature girl, and I love the Earth. "
Love
Nature
Real
" I'm not interested in hiding from the fact that my parents are actors. I'm proud of them! It's very ordinary to pursue a career that your parents do, but when it's in the public eye, it becomes a complicated thing. "
Proud
Career
Complicated
" I'm not particularly interested in my phone. I'm interested in human contact. I think phones have created a certain social incapacity; it's made people socially deficient. "
Human
Think
Phones
" I'm not super aware of what's the coolest thing and what everybody's doing or listening to or watching at any given time. "
Time
Watching
Aware
" I'm very open-minded. "
Very
Open-Minded
" In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye. "
Feel
Eye
Time
" In my living room, I was always playing guitar and writing songs and singing them. My dad and I would always sing together - only for friends and family, but always since I was a little girl. "
Family
Together
Singing
" In the first two projects I've worked on professionally, I've been doing ensemble work with other young women, which I think is pretty cool. And they both were directed by and written by women. It's been a wonderful experience of real ensemble support and women lifting each other up, and I feel really lucky for that. "
Women
Support
Experience
" I really enjoyed shooting in Ireland. The people are so lovely. I hope I don't offend anyone in saying this, but the nature reminded me of Americans: everyone was warm and open and easy to talk to. And Ireland is so beautiful and lusciously green. "
Hope
Beautiful
Nature
" I really loved getting to interact with an animal or a baby or a kid in a scene because they don't really know that you're acting. They don't know that this isn't reality. "
Loved
You
Know
" I really love my family. The more independence that I get and the more freedom that I have, the more interested I am in being a dedicated and involved family member. "
Get
Freedom
Family
" I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate about storytelling and about books. "
Hard
Writing
Growing Up
" It can't be articulated enough, that feminism means the desire to have equality between men and women. I believe that, and I act on those beliefs by going to marches and making a difference where I can. "
Women
Believe
Enough
" I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach. "
Talk
Think
You
" I think valuing what your body can do over how your body looks is the No. 1 advice I would give to young women about how to have healthy body image. It's not, 'Do these pants fit?' It's 'Can I do a split?' "
Think
Body
Healthy
" It's difficult to always have to be contextualized within the careers of your parents, and it's difficult not to feel like you can stand alone, but hopefully I'll earn the ability to stand alone over time. "
Time
Alone
Feel
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