I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

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

If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they've influenced you.