Sara Paxton

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.

The fashion industry is completely different from the acting industry, but definitely the same as well, because there's cattiness and competition just like in the modeling world.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

New York is a lot more fun than L.A.

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.

I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.

I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me.

I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.