I Wish I Was A Teenager In

I Think People Who Work And Being Alive And Paying Your Bills And Feeding Your Kids Is Hard. It's Hard To Have The Space. Quite Frankly, I'm In A Privileged Position To Think About Things, To Read About Things And To Educate Myself About Things. A Lot Of People Just Don't Have The Time.

Sometimes Something Will Be Happening In Pop Culture And A Movie Will Be Right There, So You'll Have This Perception That Maybe The Movie Got There First. But In Reality, Culture Gets There First.

Of Course You Have Days That Are Long, You're Tired, And Things Aren't Working Out, And You Can Get Frustrated, But I Would Say Any Of The Things That Make It Less Glamorous Or Cause Some Complexity Or Turn You Down The Road You Weren't Expecting To Go Down Is A Part Of The Thrill.

It's Weird Because Here I Am, An Actress, Representing - At Least In Some Sense - An Industry That Places Crushing Standards On All Of Us. Not Just Young People, But Everyone. Standards Of Beauty. Of A Good Life. Of Success. Standards That, I Hate To Admit, Have Affected Me.

You Think You're In A Place Where You're All 'i'm Thrilled To Be Gay, I Have No Issues About Being Gay Anymore, I Don't Feel Shame About Being Gay,' But You Actually Do. You're Just Not Fully Aware Of It. I Think I Still Felt Scared About People Knowing. I Felt Awkward Around Gay People; I Felt Guilty For Not Being Myself.