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I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

I love acting, and I have no desire to direct.

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.

Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.