If you put pressure on your kids to book every audition, they won't enjoy it anymore, and they won't book it, either. Also, if they don't want to go to an audition, they shouldn't be forced to go. They have to want to do it.
— Emma Kenney
I loooovvve Dylan O'Brien. He's so hot.
I love One Direction. I like Eminem.
I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.
I try not to spend too much time on my computer.
If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.
I started acting when I was 5 or so. I just did acting for fun, not actually to be an actor.
I went to public school my entire life.
Not everybody's life is like 'Gossip Girl.'
I hate watching myself on camera. I guess a lot of people feel that way, though.
I just want to send a message to my fans saying that it's OK to admit that you need help, and it doesn't make you weak.
It's hard growing up in Hollywood, you know? I'm not from L.A. originally.
Opening up your life to a dog who needs a home is one of the most fulfilling things you can do.
I would totally love to do theater.
I'm pretty much a goodie two-shoes.
I'm always in the mood for pizza.
I'd love to play characters that are so similar to me that it would be crossing limits, and then at the same time I would love to play characters that are so different from me that it would be that kind of challenge as well.
I can put both legs over my head.
'Shameless' was the first project I've ever booked, and I'm really happy for it!
I had the perfect level, growing up, between being normal and having a little taste into Hollywood. People would recognize me once in a while, but I could still go out and have my life.
I went through a phase when I was 13 or 14: I would tweet emo things about my feelings and boys who didn't like me and mean girls in school.
Nothing sounds worse than having to be surrounded by people you don't like in a sequined dress.
I try to keep my professional life and my actual kid social life separate.
I can go out and chill with my friends, go out to dinner, and I won't get hounded like, I'm sure, Paul McCartney or somebody like that.
The director will be like, 'Hey, great take. Do you want to see the playback?' And I'm like, 'Definitely not.'
I've written tons of scripts, and when I wrote 'The New Girl in Town,' I read it to my parents, and they suggested I make a movie out of it. I got a few friends together, and I shot the movie in one weekend, and then my mom and I edited it.
I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.
There is so much I'd love to do in this industry. I'm honestly interested in directing even a little more so than acting.
I have to say that one person I learned from the most as an actor in my life is Emmy Rossum. She is so insanely talented in the sense that when watching her work, it just turns into watching her speak - it's no longer acting; that's how good she is! She just becomes the person.
'Shameless' is just such a realistic show.
I did improv classes just like any kid would do soccer or gymnastics or swimming. At one of my showcases, my manager came to my mom and said, 'We would like to represent your daughter.' My mom asked me that night if I would like to actually act, and I said, 'Why not? I'll give it a try!'
I'm interested in being a professional actress.
You're not always going to look super glamorous in the morning when you wake up. Everything's not perfect.
I was watching 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' - the episode where Sabrina and her friend make a vampire movie for college. I wanted to see if it would be fun to make a horror movie.
I want to be the healthiest, best Emma that I can be, and I know that by going to treatment that's what's going to happen, and I'm going to continue on that positive road.
You've just got to be wary around people. You don't know what they want from you. Just in L.A., people have questionable motives. Everybody's kind of got an angle. You've got to be aware of that.
If you want a dog, go to your local animal shelter and adopt one. It's not rocket science, it's dog science.
