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Emma Roberts is turning into quite the beautiful young woman and ambitious actress. She recently sat down with Teen Vogue, and People Magazine has culled some of the best quotes. Emma’s not interested in having success handed to her on a Disney platter (like some young actresses who shall remain nameless) – Emma is trying to gain some acting credibility by doing smaller, edgier films. Emma wants to be more that “just Julia Roberts’s niece”.

At points, Emma seems like a thoroughly normal, well-adjusted teenager. But she’s got some serious ambitions, I can tell. Even though Emma has plans to attend college in New York in the fall, I bet at some point in the next two years Emma drops out to focus on her career. People Magazine has more:

After starring in 2007’s Nancy Drew and 2009’s Hotel for Dogs, Emma Roberts is ready to prove that there’s more to her than kid flicks and her famous aunt.

“Some people look at me and think, ‘She’s just Julia Roberts’s niece,’ ” the 18-year-old starlet told Teen Vogue’s April issue. “So I wanted to do something smaller and edgier, something that would show I really am an actress.”

That something is a starring role in the indie drama Lymelife, a 2009 Sundance Film Festival official selection costarring 30 Rock’s Alec Baldwin and Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon. Roberts also shipped off to London to shoot the edgy flick Wild Child – but not without a price.

“I couldn’t take [my driver’s test] until I got back,” she lamented.

Though she failed her driver’s test, ambitious Roberts shows no signs of stopping as she works her way down her personal checklist of teen rites of passage.

“I remember being twelve and thinking, I can’t wait until I’m sixteen, because then I’m going to have a car, a driver’s license, a really cool boyfriend, and boobs.” Seems the boyfriend is where Roberts has now shifted her focus, telling the mag, “I’m looking to musicians.”

But not just any will do for the determined Roberts. “I used to have a crush on Nick [Jonas], but he’s kind of making his rounds in Hollywood, and I don’t know if I like that.”

In addition to movie star and maturing teen, Roberts recently added Neutrogena spokesperson to her list of titles. College student could soon follow, as the star is looking to attend a New York college in the fall.

From People Magazine

Emma is the daughter of Julia’s brother Eric Roberts and his then-girlfriend Kelly Cunningham. Emma has previously stated that she and her dad aren’t very close, and she was pretty much raised by her mother, her step-dad and her Aunt Julia. I’ve always thought (but never seen it confirmed) that Emma’s birth and the whiff of “deadbeat dad” for Eric Roberts was one of the reasons that Julia and Eric’s relationship was strained at best, non-existent at worst.

Emma Roberts is shown at the Oscars on 2/22/09 and out at Sundance on 1/18/09 and 1/16/09. Credit: WENN

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