The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

My name can raise money on a small-budget film.

Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.

I have the gift of the gab, can talk and perform, but so can others. I can only attribute it to the fact that somebody up there likes me: it's remote-controlled by God.

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.