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.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the educated & serious woman. The side who wants to be a pin-up girl in garages all across America!

As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself.

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.