There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

I just think that humans were created to look upward

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

The image I gravitate towards are spunky women, women who talk back.

My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much.