“It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.”
“I thought that was normal. I thought you were born knowing what you wanted to do, ... So I couldn't understand any kids who were like, 'Whoa, what am I going to do?' I started venturing when I was 13 into singing and acting.”
“It's one of those things, you can't escape it. You set your own boundaries and you say as much as you want to say and the rest you keep private -- that's the only thing you can really do,”
