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I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.