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I love Disney movies.
Emma Watson was a super-starstruck moment.
I will never stop being excited about 'Harry Potter.'
I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.
I think avocado toast is the best ever. It's my favorite.
Words are just words. They only bother you if you let them.
Honestly, a lot of the time the character roles are the best roles.
When Sundance happened, it felt insane and not like reality at all.
When I first watched '8 Mile,' it was amazing. It got me. I loved it.
'Priscilla' was made in 1994, and I think it was kind of daring for its time.
I just got to do a challenging scene with Jennifer Aniston! That's unreal to me.
You just have to find the people that you love, and surround yourself with them.
I came out to America just before I turned 19, got my first audition, and booked it.
It's okay to be you and okay to be who you are and okay to love and accept yourself.
There aren't plus-sized teens represented in film who aren't made the butt of a joke.
There aren't often plus size, very real normal women in film. It's never their story.
I think you have to try and fail a little bit, because you learn how badly you want it.
How many people get to say they recorded a song with Dolly Parton and Jennifer Aniston?
I wanted to act; wherever that was, I was happy. It just happened to be in America for me.
I grew up in Sydney, Australia, and I started doing acting classes when I was in eighth grade.
One of the cool things about 'Patti Cake$' is that it is about someone that is against stereotype.
I've been lucky enough to play lots of real women - flawed, strong, independent women - and I love it.
You don't have to be scared of what other people are thinking. You don't need to feel judged by other people.
That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.
I had to work at it - audition and fail, get things and lose others. If you really want something, you keep going.
It definitely took me a while to adjust to L.A. I came out knowing nobody, and I'd never lived away from home before.
I want to play characters that people relate to, characters that make different kinds of women in society feel represented.
The cool thing about being different in this industry is that you get different roles; you aren't pigeonholed the same way.
I play a girl called Patti in the film 'Patti Cake$,' and she's a girl from New Jersey, and she dreams of being a famous rapper.
When you take on new roles that you don't feel comfortable with, that require you having skills you don't have, it's terrifying.
I love Octavia Spencer. I love what she has to say as a human, and I love her career and the variety of characters she has played.
I would love to live in a world that is purely equal, where everyone has equal opportunities in every way. But that is not reality.
There's a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it's exciting, but it's all little stepping stones.
I wanted to go overseas and act. I wanted to be an actor in an industry that isn't necessarily the most inclusive for anybody different.
People say things unintentionally, not realizing that it could hurt someone's feelings because they've just never experienced what you have.
'Harry Potter' is the first book that ever got me into reading. I had to read it in year 7, for school, and then I kept reading all of them.
My mom is Italian, and her whole family still lives in Italy. My dad is Australian, and his family lives in Australia, so we were raised there.
Actually, for me, it's really funny because I play characters with mommy issues more than anything, and I have a great relationship with my mom!
I've never actually played an Australian or worked in Australia. I really want to change that. I really want to work here - that would be great.
I'm very lucky with my family. They've always been very encouraging, and they never thought that anything would hold me back. I'm very fortunate to have had that.
Growing up, you see movies, and the big person is always the butt of a joke or the funny best friend, or they lose weight, and that's when they become redeemable.
The only thing is, I'm terrified of horror movies. I'm scared - I'm admitting it! I mean, I would still do a horror movie; I just probably wouldn't be able to watch it.
I'm a realist - yes, I know: darn, I'm unlikely to have a love scene with Chris Hemsworth anytime soon, if ever. But I also believe that persistence and hard work pays off.
My sister, myself, and my cousins would put on shows for our parents and charge them to come and watch, apparently. That's what I'm told. My parents said I knew how to milk it.
I actually got a visa through a job that fell through, and it allowed me to move out here and start from scratch. There's more opportunity in America for girls like me, I guess.
Kendrick is phenomenal. I've never tried and practiced a song that was as hard as when I practiced Kendrick's verse on 'Control.' He's a genius. I think that people do recognize it.
You can drive your own self crazy. You don't have to be in a bad situation or be bullied every day to feel this way. I was constantly judging myself. That's really the thing that gets you.
Not everybody gets to travel halfway around the world to see a whole different perspective. If we can see that on TV, we'll know that society is bigger than the small world we all live in.
When I was in Australia, I had three different agents in three different years, and I didn't have one audition. They were good agents; I just never had one audition that was the right stuff.
I always like auditioning because it's like, 'Oh, my God, I have an audition - yay!' It means opportunity for work, which is great. But it's scary as well, because you put so much pressure on yourself.