I want to play interesting women.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

It's hard to remember that life is a miracle. We're just living it and we forget that.

I am definitely a worrier.

The thing about acting is even if you get technically more skilled at what you do, every time you begin a film or a play you're terrified. You don't know if you're going to pull it off. Every film and every story has its own set of challenges. I've never felt like, oh yeah, that's it, nailed it! You can never sit and rest. That's why it's such an exciting job. It's beginning again every time you begin again. New story, new character, new place, new time, new director. It's like moving to a different planet and trying to figure out how to live there.

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.