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A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.

I grew up looking for myself onscreen and never could find myself. And I believe that I am supposed to be Toula to show people that it's O.K. to be different.

I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.

I do a lot of screen re-writing.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.