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I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.

I'd trained at the University of Washington and had a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting.

I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.