I am tortured when I am away from my family, from ...

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can't.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.