I'll Sleep When No One Wants To

As Early As Second Grade I Remember Feeling Really Different And Isolated. I Had The Hugest Crush On A Boy, And My Best Friend Had A Crush On Him, Too. One Day He Said To Me, 'i Like Your Best Friend More Because She's Paler And She Has Freckles.' And It Was Right Then That I Began To Feel Like, Oh Wow, I'm Different.

I Could Have Easily Been Too Afraid To Say 'yes' To Chicago, Because It Requires So Much I Haven't Done Before. If I Am A Flop At Singing And Dancing, Maybe My Love For It Will Carry Me Through.

I Think The Body Image Thing, Everybody Can Identify With That. In Our Culture There's Just So Much Pressure And So Much Attention Placed On The Way We Look. You Just Turn On The Tv Or Flip Open A Magazine And There's People Who Don't Look Like Any Of Us. I Think This Movie Is Like, Finally, A Celebration Of Reality And Of Our Imperfections. We're Not All A Size 2 And We're Not All A Size 0, And You Know What? That's Ok, Because Some Of Us Like To Eat!

The Hardest Part Of This Year Has Been Learning To Enjoy It. It's Almost Like A Full-time Job Reminding Myself To Live In The Moment And Not Look For More, More, More...i See Now That People Who Make Movies, This World Of Creative Geniuses That I Grew Up Idolizing, Are Just Normal People Who Wanted To Do Something And Made It Happen. Everything That's Happened To Me In The Last Year Has Only Made Me Feel More Like A Normal Person, More Human, But In The Most Beautiful Way.

Kids Not Only Understand [a Dark Story] But Appreciate It … Because In The Real World There's Fear, And Dark Things Happen No Matter How Young You Are. People Lose Parents, People Lose Friends … There's Darkness In The World. So I Think When Kids Are Talked To In That Way, They Appreciate It. They're Not Being Given Some Candy-coated, 'oh, This Is A World Where There Are No Stakes.' I Think That Actually Insults Their Intelligence.