You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.

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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

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Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

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They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

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I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

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You can't be hesitant about who you are.

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And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

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