I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.
I grew up in Philadelphia in a time where we took it for granted that we were supposed to be young and gifted and black. It was a culture of excellence – and all my friends were more talented than I was.
When I was 12, that’s when I went to college. All my friends were 20, 21, and I was 12. It didn’t even occur to me that that was strange.
When I read ‘Absalom, Absalom!,’ I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
All my friends are like, ‘Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?’ and I’m like, ‘I got this.’
I always wanted to be the best at everything. All my friends knew it.
I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn’t want to do that. I didn’t want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
When I was younger, all my friends were older – John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. I loved talking to those people.
All my friends are female, I’ve edited for a magazine for young girls for 15 years, I relate to women, and I’m very, very close to my younger sister.
September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, ‘Let’s join the military!’ and I was the only one who actually did.
It wasn’t easy to leave the country. To make the decision to leave everything? I was born and raised with all my friends and family members. It was a huge step in my career. Now you’re committed to basketball.
I love all my friends and I don’t hide that.
I’m not complaining about my cell phone – all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don’t want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.
I started ‘Outer Banks,’ because there’s so much hype around it. I saw one episode and I didn’t really continue, but I got to keep going at it. Two of the actors on there were also in ‘Stranger Things,’ and all my friends always ask, ‘Oh my God, you know Madelyn Cline. She was in ‘Stranger Things’ too.’
I feel angry with myself the way I handled the Bible and Christianity. A lot more people are more normal with Christianity. I was crazy… telling people you will go to hell. I lost all my friends because of my militant faith.
