Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone. 
I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role. 
My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. 
I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. 
There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment. 
I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning. 
When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll. 
I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical. 
Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like. 
I'll talk to myself out loud a lot. 
We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. 
The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first. 
I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem 