I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

I feel that our stories are cross culturally irrelevant, and I'm a member if a larger community of people who have no boundaries in terms of color or in terms of how I look at other people and their stories.

After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.

Many times - especially when I'm playing an historical character - I want to be really on target with how I create that character and really nuanced with who that human being might be. But I don't want to lose the likeness of me or the depth of my own personality. So meditation and my spirituality has helped me to realize that, yes, I want to get out of the way but I also want the ability to hold on to what the audience likes of what they see of me.

It is the strength of the mother that is going to change the way the world is. It's the compassion, the love, the very open spirited mother and woman that will move us forward in this new century. It's no doubt.

Yoga has allowed me to bring my complete spirit together, which allows me to do less, which is more.

If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy.