I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself.

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.