What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.