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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... I'd never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.