Quotes from Sydney Sweeney

Amy Adams is incredible and inspiring - she's amazing.

I separate myself from my characters as much as possible, but I have these books that I create which are interactive diaries/timelines/memory books/pictures of the character's entire world.

I'm trained in mixed martial arts. I started when I was 14 and did my first competition at 18. It was a grappling competition against all guys a weight category above me, and I got first place.

Every single character and every single person in real life can all be 16 or 17 years old and maybe live in the same town and go to the same school, but every single girl is experiencing and living a different life. I think that, on the outside, it may seem like there's a lot of similarities, but there's also a lot of differences as well.

I slalom ski. I wakeboard. I hike and rock climb.

I've been able to work with so many people, so I love asking advice from as many as possible.

On 'Euphoria,' it's so fun because we're all the same age, so being able to hang out and go out together and go to different events together has been so fun compared to always being the youngest on set, which was really fun, but it's like, you're going to go home to your husband or wife, and I'm going to go home to my dog.

I was on the math team, and I was on the soccer team.

I got rid of my place in L.A. I had this beautiful condo in Taluca Lake, but I was like, 'Why am I paying for this when I'm all over?'

I really look up to Amy Adams, who I got to work with, Meryl Streep, and Angelina Jolie.

I don't think, because I'm going to school for something else, that I will stop being an actress.

I've been able to work on shows with amazing role models, amazing actors, incredible female filmmakers.

I'm never in the same place for too long, and you make the most amazing friends on one set, and then you go to another, and you start all over again, and it's lonely sometimes.

Growing up, I was definitely a tomboy, an overall-and-Converse type of girl, and I still am, but for events, I love dressing up.

I'm a huge nerd.

I would always worry that I was only going to play the girl next door or the cute girlfriend. But I've been really lucky that all my roles have been very intense and completely different kinds of characters.

I love 'Gone Girl,' so bringing 'Sharp Objects' to life, that was amazing.

Oh, I can't master the smoldering look to save my life.

I'd love to have a production company one day, and I'd love to maybe venture out with other industries.

There was no entertainment industry at all in Spokane, Washington, where I was raised. When I was 12, this movie came to town randomly, and I begged my parents to let me audition.

My family collects vintage pinball machines, so I have a few in my apartment.