True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.

I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.