"I was determined to be at my best [on Rude Awakenings], because Danielle Cormack's amazing and one of those actors I used to looked up to as a kid."
"[My character Connie in Rude Awakenings] is pretty manipulative, someone to sink your teeth into - not just your nice teenage girl. Apparently when she was a toddler she got lost in the Coromandel and was found by a policeman, so ever since then she's had a love of uniforms."
"I'm definitely not as confident as I'd like to be on the tightrope [to play Garland in Maddigan's Quest]. But it's not too bad once you've got your balance."
"[Fantasy movies] allow you to completely step outside of what you are. It's not something you can always relate to. You get to encounter all these amazing people and places and big props and all that kind of thing. It's really grand."
"[My character Garland in Maddigan's Quest]'s pretty mature for a 14-year-old in some ways and I'm pretty immature so that kinda helped."
"I remember doing Hercules when I was four. That was one of my earliest memories because it was my first experience of getting into a character, it wasn’t a commercial. I was playing the Hydra, the monster, with special effects, so that was pretty exciting. The monster came out of the ground as I went under. I remember that pretty vividly."
"The Piano was one of my earliest memories: I was about three and I was an angel in the school production and I desperately needed to go to the toilet and they said, “Keep it, it looks really real”, but I was like full-on hobbling around the stage."
"My mum made me plan around school, because I had a lot of other interests that I was still thinking about and she totally didn’t want me to act. My brother decided he wasn’t interested at about 10 and he stopped going to auditions and she was relieved."
"We didn’t want to have to do the home-schooling thing, which is why I did short jobs. I loved school."
"I went to see a play at the Silo the other night and it just gave me a kick: 'I want to do theatre, I want to do theatre!'"
"It’s nice to play someone that people are going to dislike or something’s going to happen to them."
"My dad’s a photographer, so the idea of cameras doesn’t upset me. We’ve always had lots of family photos, lots of albums, lots of images, so I don’t freak out when I see myself on screen. I’ve never felt like I’ve grown up on screen."
"I’ve never been recognised. Maybe there have been people at school who say, “I saw you on that show”, but I’ve never been stopped or anything."
"I don't even notice the cicadas. Everybody [cast and crew of "Johnny Kapahala"] come and hear them, but cicadas are on my backyard."
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