I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.
Every single lesbian and transgender woman is a woman.
Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.
Some people will stop a scene and demand a mirror and look at themselves and check which angles they're being photographed from. I don't do that.
This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever - it's a very short shelf life if you're going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.
When I was tiny, I was a real observer of human behaviour, and I knew I wanted to tell the human story, but I felt shy and unattractive and awkward.
Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.