Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.
~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~
My mother said I was always an intense child, a very sensitive child. So that probably helped the emotions to be very present. I was just a big thinker. I would evaluate and analyze and feel and cry and discuss and be angry. All of those emotions were very surface for me.
I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.
I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.
As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.
I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.
