Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that’s going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff.

But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece. It's about being completely present all the time, right there in the moment.

I think I'll always be a theater gypsy at heart.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.