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

But it just comes down to trying to get the work out there and however the team fits together then that's the way it sort of plays into itself.

We are always just trying to be strong and yet in touch with our bodies and the only way you can really do that is to believe in yourself because that’s all that you have.

And I think right now I'm just enjoying finding something such as One Weekend a Month where I can really resonate with this woman's history and her situation.

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.

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.