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When I staged the play and narrated my story to the audience, people found it amazing that after facing so many hardships, I have gone on to do 482 films.

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

A lot of actors, we aren't that special; you get a well-written scene, and it's virtually actor-proof.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

Usually, when you're an actress, you have to audition 20 times.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.