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I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.

I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That's where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.

There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.

I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' if it weren't for my heritage. I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!