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Even actors are human beings, so we have issues to deal with - physical, emotional, and mental.

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.