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When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.

I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to. '

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

I kept turning down roles because I knew I just wasn't ready for them.

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.