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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.