A Grandmother is a safe haven.
It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.
If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.
No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.
There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting. ' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.
The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie's finished, that's for other people. But while you're doing it, that's your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.
I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
Sometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons.
I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.
You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.