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I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor.

A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.

My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.

As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

You can be really weird, and people will still accept you if you're in movies. I'm not actually weird, but if I feel like being weird, then I can do it, and they accept it because you're an actor.

I wasn't always this introverted.

I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I saw my sister in a play and realized that I wanted to play make believe in front of people; I was always goofing around and putting on shows for my family.