There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.