Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.