Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same.
And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.
Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit.
As I've grown older and understood more, though, I've begun to feel less like a child with an older man, and more of an equal.
Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?
But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.
But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman.
Everything was shot on a mountain in Vancouver, and it was so clean and clear you could drink the stream water from your hands.
For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.
Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs.
I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.
I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.
I like to pick my own vegetables.
I suppose I learned organization from Altman.
I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson.
I'm not afraid of aging.
I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.
If I brought home a straight-A report card except for one D, in math or something, I'd be grounded for six weeks.
In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.
In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.
It doesn't matter to me who makes their fortune first; some couples have it hard because either of them has any money.
Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning.
No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.
Not only scary but downright dangerous; a punt from a full-grown ostrich can impact with more than twice the thrust of a mule's kick.
Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
Some people think we drift aimlessly. But we do a lot of thinking and dreaming and touching, but we're private about it.
Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career.
Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.
The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.
There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.
To me, looking at a Guy Maddin film is like looking at an Easter egg that's been hollowed out.
Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.
We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.
We love our families - we live with Bernard's folks now.
When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.
You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.
You think he's going to like you better, but then one day you look in the mirror and realize you've changed yourself - physically and emotionally - into a woman who's totally different from the one he was attracted to the first place.
She graduated from Waltrip High School.
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