I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

No actor has a flawless career, but in the long term, I'd like my name to be synonymous with good quality.

I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last.

The goal is to work as much as possible in projects I respect and that will help me grow.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.