Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona – to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.
Women get scrutinized all the time for the way they look. So if I can learn to deal with that, then I do believe I can learn to deal with people’s criticisms of my film choices.
Honestly, after doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don’t have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that.
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.
I think that there are a lot of reasons to be insecure as an actress… But I don’t really have a perception issue. I’ve been pretty good about being who I am in the public’s eye.
