The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It only says that you should treat your slaves well. Well, I don't care if you treat them well. How is it possible that it is not immoral to own another person? Why isn't that one of the Ten Commandments? 'Thou shalt not own another person.' You want to sit here and tell me that fornication is worse than owning someone?

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

Acting is what happens on the way.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.