Pers Quotes

(On the miracle of motherhood.) Now, as an actress and a person, it has completely broadened my horizons because I have such a deep level of empathy for everyone. It opens you up and you`re like a bleeding heart. It`s funny, because you can be such a guarded person in your personal life and try to protect yourself from all these worries and hurts, but when you have a kid, you`re suddenly this feeling being. When Finley gets his vaccinations, it kills me, and you can`t protect yourself from that. My heart is being ripped out with every shot. It`s a deeper level of emotion that I wasn`t prepared to feel, but it`s completely amazing. It has opened me up both as a person and as an actress. Everything has a deeper meaning now.

In any classroom, all children are not on the same level, ... When I was a high school teacher, I stood in front of the class and taught algebra. But I learned before I left that I had to walk down the aisles and look at each person`s paper and see what each person is doing. That`s my philosophy. You teach individuals, you don`t teach algebra.