I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over.
I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school; he went to theatre school. It's interesting to learn about the technical side of it, but I think it's more important to learn about writing and...
We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but the painter is one.
I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, 'I'm lighthearted today, I'm gonna do this.'
Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.
The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.
We all like lamb; each has a different way of cooking it.
Always do something different. Always different things.
I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.
Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.
Prison is like high school with knives.
I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.
I was never really unpopular in high school.
I was a complete outsider in high school.
I studied cooking all through high school.
I never went to drama school.
I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school.
As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.
In high school, I didn't date awesome dudes.
