“I would give back all of my awards and my nominations just to have him back again… We love you Heath, wherever you are. He was my favorite actor and my favorite talent. It’s like losing James Dean. I wanted to meet him because I was very impressed with him from the very beginning. His agent introduced me to him at a party, and I just fell (in love). Actors need other actors to be inspired by, and he was my actor.

He was beautiful in his reaction; I was an idol of his - my reacting that way to his work really blew him away, but he was very modest and almost bashful about the compliment.”