'dial Star' Is About An Aspiring Actress

I Grew Up With Not A Lot Of Money And I Definitely Shopped At Goodwill. But Even In My Most Unfortunate State, I Was Really Blessed Compared To A Lot Of The Rest Of The World. I Had A Really Great Chance To Follow My Dreams And Have Them Actually Come True.

I Don't Want My Dad To Say, 'my Daughter Is An Actress On A Tv Show.' I Want Him To Say, 'my Daughter Cares About People.' I Would Love To Know That I'm A Role Model In Hollywood.

A Good Two Years After Hurricane Katrina I Remember Feeling So Devastated And So Ignorant That There Was So Much Damage Still Left. I Felt Like Here I Was An American And This Is An American City And The Government Hasn't Done Enough And People Haven't Given Back Enough. Everyone Forgot And The City Was Lying In Waste.

We Look At A Person And See The Person We Want To See. I've Had To Deal With That My Whole Life, Walking In A Room And Girls Thinking I'm Going To Steal Their Boyfriends!

I Knew I Wanted To Be An Actress When I Was 9 Years Old.