Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

Think about how long it took for the mountains to get there and look so beautiful. Think about how long it takes for this tree over us to grow. We're so impatient. Think about it. This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

In one sense, I felt not seen and heard enough as a child. At the very same time, I'm watching her and modeling her. At seventeen, I left to go to Hollywood to pursue my dream, as if there was no other option. I only learned that, the gift of it, recently. And I often forget it.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from