Quotes

Actors are sensitive on an elite level. This tends to be something that makes childhood not so easy, but it can make you a damn good actor.

I think everyone should try an acting class. Acting teaches you about compassion, and it takes it from a theory of empathy and puts you inside the condition someone else is living in. I think that'd be very valuable for anyone, particularly those in positions of authority, like politicians, police officers and doctors, right?

The biggest mistake new actors make is to think they don't need training. It's extremely naïve to think you are pretty enough or charismatic enough to understand the craft of acting.

You can call it method, but my training goes beyond The Actors Studio. I don't believe there's one right or perfect approach to acting, but there are fundamentals every actor has to have, and that's the Stanislavski (method of acting.) After that, the actor needs many tools to achieve the goal of living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.

But I'm an actor, and I'll always be acting.

As a mom, the flexibility of my schedule makes me feel very lucky, but I don't think small business is super-well-supported. I pay ridiculous taxes.

I love training actors and have probably found my most authentic purpose in life.

Theater, film and television are some of the most powerful chroniclers of time we have. If you read an Arthur Miller or Edward Albee play, you're getting a snapshot of the 1940s and '50s you can't get anywhere else that is even close to the psychology of the human condition in America at that time.

Both my parents are published playwrights and formed the first professional theater company in Denver, so all I've known is theater. I watched them write original plays and music for their children's theater, and spent my weekends backstage at their adult theater.