When I was very small, I was obsessed with 'Sybil' and Sally Field's performance in 'Sybil.' I was like, 'Oh, my God, I want to do that!'

India Eisley

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As a painfully shy kid, my fun time was locking myself away and watching movie after movie after movie. Watching a good performance, to me, was like getting a new toy.

good myself me time

When I'm working, especially when the role is very intense or very demanding, I actually tend to relax just innately afterwards because work relaxes me more than anything.

more me relax work

It's a big responsibility, I think, when you play somebody who has existed but also somebody who has just recently passed away.

think you responsibility play

I was a real weird kid.

weird kid real

When you're portraying someone, whether they're real or fictional, you have to find some kind of hook where it feels real to you because if you don't believe it yourself, then no one else is going to believe it.

yourself someone you believe

I've never really had that whole 'starstruck' part to me.

really never me whole

I'm open to anything, really. I love work.

open anything work love

For a lot of people, and I'm one of them, where you are and who you're spending your time with greatly impacts your accent.

your you time people

If I hadn't become an actress, I would be a dancer.

would actress become dancer

I've always been a fan of investigation shows.

fan been always investigation

'Forensic Files' is big in our house.

forensic our big house

You can run into people, and they can be someone you thought you were never going to hear from again or never gonna talk to again, and they end up becoming dear friends.

end you friends people

As an actor, those kinds of really intense, emotionally packed, dark things, those always very appeal to me greatly.

things me always dark

A lot of the time with jobs that I've booked, immediately I'll read the breakdown, or I'll read the script, and I'm like, 'Oh I'd love to do this, but I'm completely wrong for it,' and they tend to be the jobs that I book.

wrong time love book

When it's a good director, you can feel when they trust you when they cast you.

feel good you trust

It's a tad embarrassing, but there's this show called 'The Dead Files' on the Travel Channel, and I'm completely obsessed with it!

show dead embarrassing travel

Because I'm quite small and young looking, anyway, I tend to play younger than I am.

i-am looking small play

I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.

playing loved always opposites

Obviously, just on a visual level, as an actor, when you put on wardrobe and you look in the mirror, you're like, 'Oh, my God. This is great.' It instantly changes your posture and how you feel, and it does affect the performance as well.

mirror great you god

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

anything always cold crime