Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot.

I think watching my mom gave me great inspiration, I wish that had been reinforced more verbally. It would have kept me from a lot of pain.

Are there women in your world now that have given you those lessons in confidence? Oh absolutely. Meryl [Streep] does it all the time. I think she does it in a way that she doesn't even understand or think she's doing it.

I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.

Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.