Quotes from Diana Silvers

I think with anything career-related, there really is no rush.

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

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

Photography is very personal to me. God knows how many rolls of film I have that I've never shared.

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

I picked up photography in high school.

My dad put me in a theater group camp at Santa Monica Playhouse when I was, like, six, and then I started to realize I really liked it when I was 11 or 12; it was nice to just escape.

Octavia Spencer is, I think, one of the coolest people you will ever meet.

I'm lucky I'm tall and skinny, and I got to model to put myself through college.

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.

Be kind to each other. You never know who's going to become the CEO of what. You never know who is going to become Taylor Swift. You never know.

I don't have to think much when I take a photo on my iPhone. I sort of see the iPhone medium as instant gratification, whereas with film, you have to think about it because it's expensive.

When I step outside and think of the caliber of actors I've had the privilege of working with, it just blows my mind.

I never thought I was a fashionable person!

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!'

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

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 got to work with Juliette Lewis in my fourth real movie, which was such a cool full-circle moment. Her character in 'Gilbert Grape' is why I wanted to become an actress.

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.'

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

I was supposed to see Lorde on the 'Melodrama' Tour in New York with my best friend, but then I got a callback for 'Booksmart' in L.A. and couldn't make the concert. Thank God I got the part!

I really want to do something that is very, very deep within realism, like a 'Winter's Bone,' or a 'Blue Valentine.'