Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.

The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Not just as an actress, but on a human-being level, I've experienced frustration on many different levels. [With my] career, it would be more the frustration of not always finding challenging material or inspiring material ... [Acting is] therapeutic for me. I'm pretty accommodating.

I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.