I did one year at NYU, and I`d love to go back there someday.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don`t realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

Every day I learn something. Sometimes it`s difficult. Especially when I have to do something that I don`t normally do. Of course that`s just acting.

[On getting recognized by fans] "It always happens in places where you`d rather not be recognized. Like one time, I was just getting ready to go to bed, but I had this craving for a glass of milk. So I go to the supermarket, and I have like no makeup on, and this couple comes up to me and they`re like `Thursday night!`. They sort of yelled it across the vegetable bin, and I`m like, `Okay, don`t look at me, I look awful. I`m going over here by the celery now.`"

I`m still a shy person. I`ve learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It`s part of my job.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

I think that`s what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it`s kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

In my life, I don`t need to have my face plastered everywhere. It`s not really something I want.

It gets kinda monotonous, but that`s television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.

[On talking about her relationship with Milo Ventimiglia]: "It`s your stuff, and if you share things that are too personal with a magazine or with your public, it`s sort of like it`s not really yours anymore, it`s shared information and it`s not special to you anymore. I don`t like that. I think people with personalities who like to talk about what`s going on in their lives, they`ll talk without really knowing how it`s going to come back and bite them, and generally, it does. And luckily, I have the kind of personality where I am extremely private. I don`t really like to tell everyone my business. I`d much rather people wonder or not know".

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I`m kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.

Well, I think that a lot of times when you`re working on a film, there aren`t really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.

I just want to live each moment, but it`s kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it`s also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don`t ordinarily think about. I think it`s strange.

When I was modeling as a teenager... I just ignored it when people said to lose two inches off my hips. I had more jobs than I could take. So why would I even want more?

"For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks."

"I was at NYU`s Tisch School of the Arts for a year and I loved it. There are a lot of really creative people, there is a constant exchange of an ideas. We talk about what`s been done [in film] and all the rules for filmmaking and then we talk about how to break them."

"The success of the show is overwhelming. It`s like being Alice at the Mad Hatter`s tea party because you never know what`s going to happen next."

"Before I got "Gilmore Girls" (2000), I was modeling. I went in for a call and was told, "Sweetie, you need to lose two inches off those hips". I was 14. So I just replied, "I have more jobs than I can do. I`m in high school. I can`t go to all the trouble of losing the two inches, so I`ll pass". Someone might tell you to lose weight, but you can say no".

"Well, I remember it was 5 in the morning. I`m leaving my house to go to the set of "Gilmore Girls" (2000). I`m really tired and just when I walk outside, a bus slowly goes down the street with my face on the side of it as Rory Gilmore. I thought, "Ewwww". It`s so early. I just can`t stand seeing me".

Last year, I was driving to work at 5.30 in the morning, and I ended up right next to a bus that had a huge picture of me on the side of it. They were all over L.A. but it was the first time I`d seen one. I don`t know if it was because it was so early or what, but that freaked me out.

You hear all these great stories about kids starting their own businesses and getting involved in their communities and politics and foundations - all kinds of things. And it`s so much easier for kids to get motivated and do that. - on her belief that teens are motivated to effect change.

[About her "Gilmore Girls" (2000) audition] "It was very unexpected. I was nervous and didn`t know what I was doing. It just happened to work out".

"It`s your stuff, and if you share things that are too personal with a magazine or with your public, it`s sort of like it`s not really yours anymore, it`s shared information and it`s not special to you anymore. I don`t like that. I think people with personalities who like to talk about what`s going on in their lives, they`ll talk without really knowing how it`s going to come back and bite them, and generally, it does. And luckily, I have the kind of personality where I am extremely private. I don`t really like to tell everyone my business. I`d much rather people wonder or not know".

"It always happens in places where you`d rather not be recognized. Like one time, I was just getting ready to go to bed, but I had this craving for a glass of milk. So I go to the supermarket, and I have like no makeup on, and this couple comes up to me and they`re like `Thursday night!`. They sort of yelled it across the vegetable bin, and I`m like, `Okay, don`t look at me, I look awful. I`m going over here by the celery now.`"

"I don`t want to sound like a brat or anything, but it is scary to me. When I started working on `Tuck` I was this ball of nerves, because here I was with these real actors who had won Academy Awards and everything -- William Hurt, Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek, for God`s sake. I felt like, who am I to think I can work on that level with these people?"

"I love period pieces. Some of my favorite movies are period pieces so I would definitely do another one. I`d love to do one set in the `60`s or something like that. Some bell-bottoms and some platforms."

"Worry less about the things you can`t control and focus on the things you can. Let things go, and you`ll have 50 percent less stress in your life!"

"I just picture myself being happy. I don`t know how it`s all going to work out, but I just imagine it working out. You`ve just got to make your plans and, once you`ve made them, you have to stop worrying."

"It`s not that I spent my day worrying about what other people think, but at public events, then maybe you have a certain responsibility towards your audience, and our audience are young girls....Maxim wouldn`t ask me to do a cover anyway."

"Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person`s body. I`m boring. I go to movies. I read. That`s about it."

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