America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. I'm aware of that. And my career has been given to me by the people I've worked with, no question. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I'm really grateful.

For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird-that's your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don't. It's OK.

I can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up.

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.