Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

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

Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband.

So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence.

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.