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I was considered an ugly duckling.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very 'Glee.'

On the one hand, I always get the young ingenue, pretty parts. But I don't think of myself that way because I was an ugly duckling when I was growing up. I have to be reminded when I play a part sometimes that I'm playing the pretty girl.

I had a few ducks as a kid.

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.

I went through puberty late. I was a little, little, tiny kid. I was still growing in college.

My story wasn't one of those cliched stories of being an ugly duckling, I had a pretty good time at school. But then I think being six foot by the age of 15 meant that I couldn't help but be noticed, and that was when my physical being felt quite painful - I could not any longer walk into a room without being noticed.