Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting.

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.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.