I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

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

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!

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.

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.

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