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I like exposing myself. There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress who absolutely believes in exposing herself.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character.

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.