As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
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You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.
Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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.
As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.
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.
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.
I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.
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!
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.
Audiences like me doing action and comedy. I am a jovial person and have been so from childhood. I like to laugh my way through my work, and that attitude reflects in my roles. Even women hate me doing rona-dhona roles. So I don't do emotional films.
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