I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

There's such a grace and understanding in the female persona when women have really come into their own. Part of that is to have children, and to be caring for those children, and not only in the care for them, but also in the nurturing and raising of them, they have to pass on their souls and their intelligence. And all those things can't be taught. It's something that, that in the essence of a woman, the essence of a mother, a mother knows!

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.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.