In reality, people are people. Age does a weird thing to your body on the outside. It makes your face fall and weird things happen all over. But inside, you're the same person you always were.

Change is never easy.

If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any goddamn wars in the first place.

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.

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

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.

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.