Having An Education Is Invaluable.

I Didn't Think At All About My Body Until After I Stopped Nursing. When I Was Nursing, My Body Was My Daughter's, I Didn't Even Think About It. Then I Finished Nursing, And I Was Kind Of Like "oh, Huh, Wow, My Body's So Different."

Mainstream Hollywood Makes A Few Good Movies A Year. And In Order To Be In One Of Those, You Have To Be One Of Five People. Hollywood Makes Many Bad Movies Too, Which I'm Not Interested In Being A Part Of. But There Are Only A Few Good Independent Movies A Year, And Many, Many Bad Ones. I Want To Be In Good Movies, And I Want People To See Them.

Being A Mother Has Absolutely Forced Me. You Have To Write Things Down And Have Systems For All Of It. And Then You Set Up Systems And You Realize They Don't Work.

Someone Who's 26, 27, Has A Very Different Relationship To Sex Than Someone Who's 30.

Sometimes I'll Read Things In The Script And Think, "that's Not How Humans Behave," Or "i Don't Understand How To Do That Role And Make It Seem Like I'm Not Some Kind Of Strange Alien Or On A Sitcom." I Don't Get It, And When I Feel That Way, I Have To Listen To My Instinct. My Initial Instinct Does Lead Me In A Direction That I Can Trust.