Publication: Pavement

"I just always sort of knew that I wanted to be an actor," she recalls, "and I didn't really have any way of doing it. Nobody in my family was involved in any way in the entertainment industry at all."

"I made conscious choices to not do the things that you can do when you're on a show like (90210) that get you pigeonholed. I just laid low and did my job and then go off and do these kinds of cool/weird little movies."

"I got offered Scary Movie 2 and it was so different from anything I'd ever done. So I did it and got it out of my system and I won't be doing it again!"

It's clear that Robertson has a good reason for every move she makes. She did I am Sam because she wanted to work opposite Penn and Beautiful in order to work with Sally Field. And, importantly, she has no regrets.