I Must Have Been A Really Pretentious

I'm Always Sort Of Anticipating Life Being Difficult, But On A Basic Level, That's Sort Of On The Surface, On A Basic Level, I'm Optimistic In The Sense That I Think It's All Going To Be Alright In The End.

My Dad Had This Philosophy That If You Tell Children They're Beautiful And Wonderful Then They Believe It, And They Will Be. So I Never Thought I Was Unattractive. But I Was Never One Of The Girls At School Who Had Lots Of Boyfriends.

I Think Georges Feydeau Said Comedy Is Just Tragedy Speeded Up.

Accents Are Very Tangible, Blessedly, And If You Have To Do One, It's A Way Of Getting Into Character. I Can Read It Through A Few Times And Pretend I Know What I'm Doing!

My Take On People And On The Characters I Play In Transsiberian, The Role You're Looking For, Is That Everybody Is More Than One Thing. We're Many Things, All Of Us, And There Are Times When We Are Capable Of Great Levity And Jolliness And Then There Are Times When The Opposite Is True.