I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.

Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.

I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice.

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.