You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.

You express different energies at different times in your life.

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

I love being outside and getting fresh air.

A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.

I was always concerned with making cool-sounding rock records.

Only when we are over, does our real life begin.

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.

With that, he looked over his shoulder. Blay's breath shot out of his lungs. "Oh... my God," he whispered.

Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.

Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.