About the filming of the "Eloise" movies: It was like a long vacation,
a 54 -day vacation.
It (acting) is something I want to do as long as I live.
As long as you can laugh you are not old.
My mother is my hero.
There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.
[on her work in Medium] I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than... just eating breakfast, you know?
Oh! I would like to learn so many things: I'd like to take tennis
classes, I'd like continuing vocal lessons, and I'd definitely like
taking more ice skating and more tap. I'd like to really learn
painting, and I'd like to learn Tibetan - Lhasa Dialect - and really
learn Farsi, so that I can speak to my friend and her family; I would
like to learn so many things. But I just barely have enough time to do
what I am doing now.
On her role Kate in My Sister's Keeper (2009): There are scripts
when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky
and offered this part you should not tempt your fate and go to the
greatest extent to be/to play this character. If you have an
opportunity to do that and you do not, it's shameful. Shaving my head
was the least I could do for Kate to experience the degree of her
isolation and outcast from a 'normal' healthy life. Playing Kate was like balancing between two realities.