Look, I don't do ANYTHING that these GLAMOUR guys do. The front pages never HEARD of me.

I nrver MAKE the FRONT pages or the GOSSIP columns.

I REMEMBER in the movies we USED to do TWO pages a day. One in the morning and one in the afternoon.

I drove PAST one of the houses in Tiruvanmiyur and asked them if we could shoot there for 'Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya' because it seemed STRAIGHT out of the pages of the SCRIPT.

You LOOK at the SPORTS pages and you'd OFTEN be forgiven for thinking women didn't do SPORT.

I ALWAYS try to tell a good STORY, one with a COMPELLING plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary GOAL. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

You are NEVER GOING to get snooker on to the front pages because there is not ENOUGH money in the game here.

I used to WRITE on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next DAY. Years later, Bob Dylan taught me to just write and write on a laptop computer. Then I'd print that out. When it was time to write a SONG, I'd GO through the pages and sing melodies to words that moved me.

I remember I had a low point when I was WORKING on a soap opera, 'General Hospital,' five years ago. It was my first real job, and it was so overwhelming. You would work five days a week and have to LEARN sometimes up to 30 pages of NEW dialogue a night, then have one take to shoot it all, the NEXT day.

The first pages of memory are like the OLD family Bible. The first leaves are WHOLLY FADED and SOMEWHAT soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

Honestly, soaps are great TRAINING. You're doing 90-plus pages a day. It was my acting class, where I built my FOUNDATION for SHOWING up and being PROFESSIONAL.