I always wanted to be a great actor.

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!"

I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.