Emma Kenney Quotes

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

- Emma Kenney

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.

- Emma Kenney

I've written tons of scripts, and when I wrote 'The New Girl in Town,' I read it to my parents, and they suggested I make a movie out of it. I got a few friends together, and I shot the movie in one weekend, and then my mom and I edited it.

- Emma Kenney

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.

- Emma Kenney

I did improv classes just like any kid would do soccer or gymnastics or swimming. At one of my showcases, my manager came to my mom and said, 'We would like to represent your daughter.' My mom asked me that night if I would like to actually act, and I said, 'Why not? I'll give it a try!'

- Emma Kenney

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.

- Emma Kenney

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

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I have to say that one person I learned from the most as an actor in my life is Emmy Rossum. She is so insanely talented in the sense that when watching her work, it just turns into watching her speak - it's no longer acting; that's how good she is! She just becomes the person.

- Emma Kenney

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

- Emma Kenney

I loooovvve Dylan O'Brien. He's so hot.

- Emma Kenney

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.

- Emma Kenney

I'd love to play characters that are so similar to me that it would be crossing limits, and then at the same time I would love to play characters that are so different from me that it would be that kind of challenge as well.

- Emma Kenney

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.

- Emma Kenney

There is so much I'd love to do in this industry. I'm honestly interested in directing even a little more so than acting.

- Emma Kenney

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

- Emma Kenney

'Shameless' was the first project I've ever booked, and I'm really happy for it!

- Emma Kenney

'Shameless' is just such a realistic show.

- Emma Kenney

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

- Emma Kenney

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.

- Emma Kenney

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

- Emma Kenney

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

- Emma Kenney

I can put both legs over my head.

- Emma Kenney

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.

- Emma Kenney

I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.

- Emma Kenney

I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

- Emma Kenney

I went to public school my entire life.

- Emma Kenney

I'm always in the mood for pizza.

- Emma Kenney

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.

- Emma Kenney

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

- Emma Kenney

I try not to spend too much time on my computer.

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I love One Direction. I like Eminem.

- Emma Kenney