I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they’re actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.
I feel like every role that you take there’s a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don’t know if perfect is the right word because I don’t believe in perfection and I don’t think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.
I started teaching myself, taking a breath or a moment that’s not overreacting or having an explosion. It made me such a better person. Let alone a better mother, but also just a better human.
People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it’s impossible because it’s a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they’re unattractive.
I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old.
