Acting Is Not About Being Famous, It's

We're Not All Evil Or All Good, And We All Make Mistakes To One Degree Or Another.

I Don't See Myself As Competing With Other Actresses. I Mean, I Went Through A Time When I Was In New York, And I Was Going To Lots Of Auditions And Trying To Get Parts, But Even Then, You're Not Really Competing With The Other Actresses. There Is A Competition Going On, But It's Not Like Something You Can Win In That Way.

Sometimes People Don't Rehearse At All, But You Might Have Had A Chance To Rehearse For A Few Days, Or Even More Than That. Then In The Moment When The Camera's Running Is The Only Time It Matters. So Whatever You've Discussed Or Thought About Or Discussed With The Director, The Other Actors, Hopefully There's A Part Of The Experience That You've Left Open So That Only In That Moment The Camera Catches It. That's Of Course The Hardest Thing To Do Because Everything Is Planned And You Have Thought About It In Advance.

If You Push In Every Time There's A Big Moment, Then The Tenth Time You Push In, You're Not Going To Get The Same Effect. Or If You Have Too Many Close Ups, Then When You Have A Big Moment And You Want A Close-up In Order To Make A Point, It Doesn't Mean Anything Because You've Already Been Doing Close-ups. It's Like Writing In All Capitals. Then After A While That Doesn't Mean Anything. So, Just Because You Can Do Something With A Camera Doesn't Mean You Should.

We Still Want To Idealize Moms, And Sometimes We Want To Idealize Actresses Who Are Moms, Too. I Know That's Something I've Experienced, But We're All Just Doing The Best We Can And We're All Trying To Raise Our Kids And Talk To Them About Everything That Needs To Be Discussed.