I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
I’m lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place – Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I’m more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
Most films these days are men’s stories. Women are for add-on romance. That’s very hard.
I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn’t picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn’t a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn’t mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn’t get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.
But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
I love and adore being a mother. It’s the greatest gift I’ve ever been given.
I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.
I was not particularly bright, I wasn’t very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
I’d like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it’s probably more like a TV reality show.
But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
If you’re not ready to be in a relationship, going out with someone much younger than you is probably a great idea, because you both can have a decent experience and hopefully nobody will end up feeling cheated when it ends.
Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn’t know where to find a date.
That’s the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it’s this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other’s lives.
I don’t think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.
I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you’re saying someone else’s words and relaying the story of someone else’s life, it’s not you.
I love comedy. I don’t approach it any different. I’m not a comedian. I’m not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don’t get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.
It’s mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality.