Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

We're going to be a family of four.

We felt she should have her own history of sexual abuse . . . which makes her feel very deeply about what she is doing, because she's having to look backward into her own vulnerability as well as using all her training and strength,

These are women who are beaten, raped, sold . . . mentally dominated, threatened that their families will be destroyed, ... They have no other options.