If you have the right costumes you feel more confident as the character, they really help you act.

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere.

How I was raised is what I am today.

Since age 14, I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.