I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

My mother never really thought I could become anything.