I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

You have your real life and then you have your work.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

I like being a leader in real life.

Summer was kind of the opposite of the Marissa Cooper character, who was the straight 'popular girl,' ... It was fun to be the humorous part of the Marissa-Summer team, just like Seth is the humor on the Ryan-Seth team. Josh has such a tremendous sense of humor, so humor and comic timing were important parts of what I guess you'd call the formula for the show.