The loss of a child.

All good dramatists are scared of the audience.

Drowning. The feeling of not being able to take a breath. I’m sure my therapist would have something to say about the deep psychological reasons for it.

Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.

I think acting your age is allowing other people to make decisions for you about how you should behave and what is age-appropriate. I encourage people to live and not be tied down with other people's expectations of what you should be doing. If you want to do something, go and do it. We overly worship the altar of youth. It's not good for our mental health. As a culture, we need to get better at seeing the beauty in aging and the beauty in things that are not young.

I would say, “Don’t worry. It’s all going to be fine.” I always thought it would be fine, but there was a long time when it wasn’t fine. In terms of my career, the biggest thing I wanted to do was work in this theater in Glasgow. That was my dream. I thought that was a huge dream and maybe I’d move to London one day. I just wanted to work and I still just want to do work. I do think this happening to me is partially due to a a willingness to be like “Okay, I’ll go to America.” I’m not hungry.

Vodka.

It’s a gut thing. There’s no rhyme or reason to it.

I once spent a summer doing a puppet show in kindergartens around the Shetland Islands.

A couple of summers ago, walking through a forest illuminated by fireflies, with my man and our dogs.