And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me, it isn't valuable to think about how I'm coming off all the time if I'm trying to create a character, because that's a process that I love. It's like falling in love and surrendering to another person or a character.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.

Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.