“Yelling and screaming won’t really get what I want from my kids.”

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 I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author was trying to get at.

Trying to beat my personal best

I have to be a calmer person, because my anger can look pretty terrifying to a young person.

I’m newly widowed, so I’ve gone from having a life partner, and having another brain to make decisions with

I guess I’m a pretty curious person.

That way, it’s not nagging me, things to add to my to-do list.

I come from a theater background

I drink a lot of water, and I go to therapy.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

The noblest of the elements is water.

When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

It’s all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.