I would have loved to have been science-minded enough to be in the caring profession - either as a doctor or nurse or vet.

If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you're heading for disaster.

I wanted to set 'Heading Out' in a real world, a concept I originally struggled with, as I don't have a proper job.

Performers only get to do their showing off because the public pay to see them. To deny your audience a photo, whatever the format, seems a little rude to me.

Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'

I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am. I'm a full-blooded Brazilian, with an entire extended family of Brazilians, but I was born and raised in the U.S.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.