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To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

Sometimes, as a young woman, you are boxed in more to playing characters that are emotional and vulnerable.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.