Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.