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.

We are the choices we have made.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

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

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

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

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.