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Sarah Hyland Goes Glam for YRB Magazine

Posted Monday December 19, 2011 11:25 AM GMT

She's made a name for herself thanks to the huge success of her hit show "Modern Family," and Sarah Hyland was selected to cover the latest issue of YRB magazine.

The 21-year-old actress got all glammed up for the Nitin Vadukul helmed front page shoot while dishing about a wide range of topics including her ABC comedy, acting preferences and romantic doings with her "Geek Charming" co-star beau, Matt Prokop.

Highlights from Miss Hyland's in-depth interview are as follows. For more, be sure to visit YRB!

On how she landed her first job:
"I was with my dad, he was going to an audition, and I kind of poached it. I had really long, curly hair and they were like, ‘Oh, you should audition to play Howard Stern’s daughter in this.’ So I did, and that was it."

On whether she prefers drama or comedy:
"It doesn’t really matter to me, but this is my first sitcom. I did a lot of drama when I was younger, so this is a lot more fun because it’s new and I don’t have to go to work and at the end of the day be drained because I’ve been crying all day or something like that, you know? So I just get to go to work and have fun and kind of goof off."

On how similar she is in real life to her "Modern Family" character of Haley:
"Haley and I have exactly one and a half things in common: neither of us can cook to save our lives, and I always have my phone on me. My phone is the half thing — but only half — because I’m not always texting. I always forget to text people back, even though I have my phone on me. There are a lot of things that might slip Haley’s mind during the course of a day, but texting somebody back is not one of them."

On her favorite parent to hang out with from "Modern Family":
"Oh, that’s hard. Everybody asks that and I always think it’s really unfair. I generally love everyone, but me and Julie [Bowen] are really close and I love hanging out with Julie. But Sofia [Vergara] is also amazing and Jesse [Ferguson]. It’s one of those things where I can’t decide. It’s one of those things where you start to answer it and then you’re like, 'Oh, but no but Ty, oh, but no not Ty, Jesse.' You know, it’s really hard, you can’t really give a hundred percent straight answer."

On meeting her boyfriend Matt Prokop:
"We just were talking and stuff, I mean, it was a three-day process so we had to know the people that were there or else the time would just be miserable and stressful. We figured out that we had a lot of mutual friends in common, and we were just talking and we became, back in the day [laughs], MySpace friends. [We] were friends on that because I lived in New York at the time. So we were friends first, which I always think is best."

Photo Credit: Nitin Vadukul for YRB