All of the sudden people say, "She's got tits and legs and blond hair. Let's talk to her!" I've been paying dues for years in modeling. Not only that, it took a month and a half of Chuck Russell, The Mask's director, and Jim Carrey trying to get New Line to say O.K. on me. I didn't sleep; I had an ulcer. Of course, when people talk of paying their dues, they mean years of going to acting school and auditionin.

What drives me is what I'm putting out into the world, and I like to make films that people can connect to, or they can escape in.

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.

To me, that's the wealth of my life: my friends and family and the experience I get to share with them.

Usually, when it's a story about three women all being involved with the same man, it ends in some eyeballs being scratched out and some weaves being snatched off.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Sometimes I enjoy talking, but when it's like people are trying to find something out about me, I don't.