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

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

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

One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.

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

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

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.