It's hard growing up in Hollywood, you know? I'm not from L.A. originally.

Emma Kenney

Categorized in : You Know Growing Up Hard

I'm always in the mood for pizza.

always pizza mood

I try to keep my professional life and my actual kid social life separate.

professional try kid life

If you want a dog, go to your local animal shelter and adopt one. It's not rocket science, it's dog science.

you dog animal science

Opening up your life to a dog who needs a home is one of the most fulfilling things you can do.

you dog home life

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.

you enjoy pressure book

The director will be like, 'Hey, great take. Do you want to see the playback?' And I'm like, 'Definitely not.'

will great see you

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.

know you want people

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.

dinner friends chill i-can

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.

help saying you want

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.

road best i-can positive

I hate watching myself on camera. I guess a lot of people feel that way, though.

feel myself hate people

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.

friend see college fun

Nothing sounds worse than having to be surrounded by people you don't like in a sequined dress.

dress nothing you people

Not everybody's life is like 'Gossip Girl.'

like gossip girl life

You're not always going to look super glamorous in the morning when you wake up. Everything's not perfect.

look you not-perfect morning

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.

things me feelings school

I went to public school my entire life.

entire-life public life school

I'm interested in being a professional actress.

professional interested actress being

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.

my-life me life people

I started acting when I was 5 or so. I just did acting for fun, not actually to be an actor.

actor just acting fun