I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.

I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.

As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.

I want to be contributing and working with people that I like and love, and this was the perfect combination.

Part of our job as human beings is to share our knowledge and share the things we've learned. So we can either save people from making the same mistakes, or give them hope.

I think we do need radicals. We need extremists, because that's how change happens.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.