Sara Paxton

Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

All the women in my family are extremely strong.

My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.

Sharks are really serious animals. They've been around longer than dinosaurs. They're basically prehistoric killing machines, and that's terrifying and fascinating, at the same time.

I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.