I Came From A Divorced Mother And

If I Can Look At Each Character That I Am Given And Create Them In A Different Way From The Last Role, I'm Happy.

There's Such A Grace And Understanding In The Female Persona When Women Have Really Come Into Their Own. Part Of That Is To Have Children, And To Be Caring For Those Children, And Not Only In The Care For Them, But Also In The Nurturing And Raising Of Them, They Have To Pass On Their Souls And Their Intelligence. And All Those Things Can't Be Taught. It's Something That, That In The Essence Of A Woman, The Essence Of A Mother, A Mother Knows!

I'm Not Too Into Fast Food, But You Know If I Was, It Would Be Chicken.

As Human Beings, When We're Young, We're Not Jaded. As We Grow Older, We Begin To Take On Ideas Of Our Parents, Family Of Origins And That Changes Us. We Become Less Fluid Sometimes. So For Me, I Look For Roles That Are Uplifting In Many Ways - No Matter What The Race Or Color Of The Role Is. I Want To Go Beyond That And Try To Share What I Think My Gift Is And That Is We All Have This Gift Of Choice. We Just Don't Sometimes Realize We Have That Choice.

Many Times - Especially When I'm Playing An Historical Character - I Want To Be Really On Target With How I Create That Character And Really Nuanced With Who That Human Being Might Be. But I Don't Want To Lose The Likeness Of Me Or The Depth Of My Own Personality. So Meditation And My Spirituality Has Helped Me To Realize That, Yes, I Want To Get Out Of The Way But I Also Want The Ability To Hold On To What The Audience Likes Of What They See Of Me.