I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

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.

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

We just fight our way through it. But you can't just get up and walk out without repeating the behavior over and over.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.