I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

I don't have a political bone in my body.

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

Never look a gift lion in the mouth.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

Only those who have awakened know that they were sleeping.

I watch my YouTube videos over and over.

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

Inspiration always arrives unannounced.