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You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

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 when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

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.

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

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

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on.

The emotions of the actors are better when they understand the chronological factors that are adding to the story.