You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

I havent lost my culture, just my accent.