Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

Success has to be an inside job. Happiness does not come from external material things. Even people don't make us ultimately happy. It's how we choose to deal with those things that happen in our lives that matters.

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.

I want to play many different characters.

Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.