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Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.'

I remember when I was little, much younger than I was when I started modeling, people always said, 'Oh, you should be a model.' But I didn't like people telling me what to do... But I didn't plan to transform into an actress, either. It just happened.

I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top - and never fell off.

People call me a 'model-actress,' when I just never started with that... it's not my story.

In the beginning, I didn't know if I was still a model, if I was an actress. I knew I wanted to be an actress, but it was so difficult to be believed.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.