I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.

I had an upbringing in which I was allowed to be free and use my mind. My parents only helped me to be myself. It was only in my teenage years that I met people who made me start having doubts about who I was. They said you shouldn't be confident, you shouldn't be strong. It is only when you meet those other people that you lose confidence.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

What's exciting to me is the live show medium itself; it's the last untouchable medium. I don't think it will ever go away. It has gone on from the beginning of time with little performances around a campfire, I'd imagine, like cavemen doing some chants, rhythm, and sounds, beating on things.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.