Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.
I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it.
I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.
I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring.
I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.
I was very soft. I gained a lot of weight with my second child and was very on the couch. And [me manager ] said, "You know, this is a softer role [in Misteress]. She is a softer character. She's a lesbian that's always the passive half of the relationship. "
I was more wishy-washy in the first 12 years of my career, just because that was my personality.
Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I sense my essays are good, I try to resubmit to another place in pulp and several of them have been variously published in newspapers and magazines.
When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.
If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear.