SYDNEY SWEENEY

I would love to write and direct.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

Hard work pays off. The harder you work, the more people will notice.

Every show is completely different.

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

'Euphoria' was a lot of fun wardrobe-wise because I actually got to wear clothing that I would regularly wear.

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.

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.

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

Jean-Marc Vallee is a talent, and working with Amy Adams was incredible.

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.

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

I have to be honest: I've memorized 'Titanic.'

Everybody is always like, 'You must be a really good liar,' and no, I'm actually a truth teller, and I'm telling someone else's truth. If I'm lying, then I'm not doing my job correctly.

I believe in this industry as a business, and I want to continue to grow my own business.

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

Everyone looks cool in the '90s.

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.

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.

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

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.

I'm really into both sides of the industry - in front of the camera and behind the camera. I love the business side of it; I love all of the contracts and negotiating and the different connections that you can make.

I build my characters from the day they're born to the first page of the script.