I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

I am passionate about what is going on with the oceans, mainly because we are for some idiotic reason, really screwing it up. I mean, we're really killing the ocean. It's like putting out the sun. Without it, there is no us.

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.