[on whether she wants to be an actor when she`s older] "I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I`m intrigued by it and I`m quite good at science at school."
[on roles she`s been offered since Whale Rider] "They`re all really sexual roles or they all think that I`m still 11. They send me scripts and I say that I`m too young or not old enough and they`re like, `Well just come in and see us.` And so I go in and ...
I`d always wanted to act but it wasn`t just that, it was because all the ladies wore pretty dresses.
