There are hierarchies in B-Town regarding many things, not just gender. Men also go through a lot in this industry.

We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.

I find it very important to keep learning because, as an actor, you get exhausted. You need more emotion, more experience... you need something to base everything on.

My memories mean a lot to me, and I hold them close to my heart.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.

Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you study somewhere to be an actress?' No, this is life. That's why I think I don't want to say you need a really bad experience to be a good artist, but bad experiences in your life say something.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.