The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

I'm not going to do opinion. That's not who I am.

I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I am today.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way.