Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

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

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.