I want to play characters that people relate to, characters that make different kinds of women in society feel represented.
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I didn't know how to be cool. I didn't know how to have swag.
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I would love to live in a world that is purely equal, where everyone has equal opportunities in every way. But that is not reality.
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I play a girl called Patti in the film 'Patti Cake$,' and she's a girl from New Jersey, and she dreams of being a famous rapper.
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People are always going to tell you to lose weight, and they tell you how they feel about it. There are pressures always to be a certain weight, but you have to be who you are. And if you want to change, you have got to do it for you and not for what people want you to be.
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There aren't plus-sized teens represented in film who aren't made the butt of a joke.
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I love Disney movies.
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When I was in Australia, I had three different agents in three different years, and I didn't have one audition. They were good agents; I just never had one audition that was the right stuff.
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I'm very lucky with my family. They've always been very encouraging, and they never thought that anything would hold me back. I'm very fortunate to have had that.
