If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

I'm very aware, but I'm very naïve. When you are really naïve and expecting safety and expecting the best, you don't feel you're taking risks. You can get smacked a little, but usually it works out pretty well. I would say that, as much as you can instill your open-minded naivety, if you're basically open minded, then you can do damn near anything.

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.