DIANA SILVERS

At the end of the day, people don't always remember what it is you said to them, but they remember how you made them feel.

The boy I was crazy about was super into photography, so I weaseled my way into AP Photo to impress him and spend more time with him. He never liked me back, but I ended up spending most my senior year in the darkroom - it became a sort of safe haven for me.

I picked up photography in high school.

I'm the fifth of six kids, and we're quite an eclectic family. People call us the 'Royal Tenenbaums,' because we're that kind of wonky.

I would love to play roles that continue to challenge and push me in different directions - emotionally, mentally, and physically as well.

I just want to do roles that are going to change one person's life.

At the end of the day, I write characters that I want to play, because I just think, 'Hey, maybe one day it'll get made.'

'Rear Window' isn't really a horror film, but it is a psychological drama, which I love. It is very tense.

I was like, 'I'm going to win Wimbledon!' I was crazy competitive, leg-slapping, all of that. But when I was 12, I saw 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape,' and it just opened my eyes to what movies can do and how they change us, and I was like, 'This is what I want to do. This is what I have to do.'

Acting is kind of an escape. You get to live life as someone else, and when you're living this life as someone else, you don't really have time to think about your own life.

I know I wouldn't have made the callback for 'Ma' if my father's house had not burned down because I would have been in finals. My teachers would not have been chill with me leaving in the middle of my Medieval Magic final.

I played tennis. My older brother, Joseph, was a cello player, and I played the cello, but he was better than me at the cello, and he was also a better tennis player than me, so I was always like, 'I wish there was something that only I did!'

I don't like excessive violence. That's my thing. I don't like movies heavy with guns, any of that stuff, so I'm not into that stuff, but I love a psychological thriller.

When I played Hope in 'Booksmart,' I was like, 'I could see myself with a woman.' Because, literally, I was seeing myself with a woman.

When a relationship ends, all you can do is play in your head everything that happened between you.

A lot of what I do outside acting is really just for me.

Like everyone in high school, like everyone in life, we all have this outer layer we put up to protect ourselves.

Being 1 of 6 made me a weirdo in school. We were like the von Trapps, and our house was like the 'Hunger Games.' Anytime my mom would get a good, sugary cereal, I'd hide a bag from my three older brothers, who'd eat everything.

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a tennis player.

Really think about the way you interact with people, whether it's in person or on the Internet. You have to be very mindful.

Contrary to popular belief, you don't make money as an actor in the beginning. Your publicist might cost $5000 a month, so you're losing money.

I never edited a photo of myself in my life. I don't have the energy.

I never thought I was a fashionable person!

I truly believe Lorde is the voice of our generation.

'The Shining' is one of my favorite movies of all time.