If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.

I'm an actress. I'm not putting my life on the line for any great cause. I don't step out too boldly about anything except my children and family.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

I mean, it feels like a homecoming in a really wonderfully comfortable place to be - the same director, the same musical director, my same dressing room! [laughs] It's a great place to build something with freedom.