My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.
I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.
My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.
For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.
Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.
In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied a cream to our chests to make our breasts grow. I was 10.
Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.
I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.
