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We All Have Our Insecurity And That's Normal. And You Have To Learn To Accept That About Being An Artistic Person Or Aspiring To Be An Artistic Person Is That Fears And Insecurity, They Don't Go Away.

One Of The Things On A Very Practical Level As An Actor Or Actress Is That When You Do A Play, You Do The Entire Story Every Time You Do It. You Have Eight Shows A Week. You Have A Rehearsal Process Of Four To Five To Six Weeks. And Then Once You're In Performance, Everybody Else Goes Away And You're There With Your Fellow Actors And The Audience And The Material And Your Life Becomes About That. And You Go Through The Story From The Beginning To The End Every Time You Do It And Depending On How Long You Do It, That's Where The Craft Comes In.

All Of Modern Acting Comes From Stanislavski, Who Was The Russian Partner To Chekhov. When Chekhov Was Writing His Plays, Stanislavski Was Running His Theater. And Stanislavski Really Was The First Inventor Of Modern Acting And Then Everything That Came Out Of The Method And Stella Adler And The Great Teachers Really Came Out Of Him.

Right Now, I Love The Fact That I Have So Many Opportunities, But I Know This Privileged Position Cannot Last. That Doesn't Mean That I'll Stop Working. I Picture Myself As An Old Actress Doing Cameos In Films With People Saying: "isn't That That Bening Woman?"

Some People Say Talent Is Energy And That's A Very Interesting Way Of Thinking About It. In Other Words, People With Talent Have A Lot Of Energy.