I Always Talk About My

My Mom Played Tennis For, Like, Six Hours A Day And Went To College On A Tennis Scholarship, Because That Was The Way She Could Go To School. So They Instilled In Me The Idea That You Have To Work Hard For The Things You Want In Life And Never Complain.

I Learned To Read At Two. I Was In A Montessori School And They Teach You To Read Really, Really Young.

I Love The Feeling I Get When I'm On A Set; I Love Reading The Scripts, Playing The Characters, Getting To Be Someone Else.

I Have Traveled To A Lot Of Places, And You Look At Another Young Person Who Lives Under Very Different Circumstances Than You But Has The Same Dreams Or The Same Interests Or Might Be Better At What I Do Than What I Do. But I Was Born In A Different Place, And She Was Born In A Different Place. Just For That Alone, You're Kind Of Inherently Given Opportunity. That's Something That I'm Very Grateful For, But I'm Also Very Aware Of.

My Grandmother Was German. She Didn't Teach Any Of Her Children German. She Really Wanted Them To Be American. And Now, She's Since Passed Away, I Get So Frustrated Sometimes. I'm Like, "oh, Oma, Why Didn't You Teach Your Kids German?" My Dad Would Have Spoken German To Me From Birth, And I Would Have Spoken German.