I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.
Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.
As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.
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.
Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn't very present prior to that.
I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.
We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!
You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.