Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.

A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.

Ask "why" until there is no more "why."

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

I know that actors and actresses have a great reputation for being very, very selfish, and in some cases, that's very true. But in the theater I find it doesn't help you to be selfish. You sort of have to be selfless in the theater, and the more selfless you are - that doesn't mean don't take care of yourself - but the more you sort of surrender to the work, I find, the better the work is. That's just my experience.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.