“I come from a theater background”

I don’t strive for balance.

I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

My son’s homework, or what I get from his teachers, the same way.

I’m competitive.

I’m dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray.

I work out. I used to go to yoga every day. Now I just incorporate yoga into my warm-up and my cool down.

So I get the mail, open it up, deal with it then.

To doing it all on my own and questioning what I’m doing.

I just try to get through my to-do list, with my kids’ homework being at the top of it, and then try to prepare for the next audition or whatever scene I’m shooting next. Balance.

I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

I like doing new things..

Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.

I read. It affects every decision that I make.

I think I continue to work because I’m good at my craft.

I’m dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray.

I still look up the meaning of the name of the character to see if there are any clues in that.

So you really, really have to stay supple.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

The personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,

Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd,

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.

I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.