My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.