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You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.

It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It's not what I want to be known as.

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

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.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

And I'm OK being judged as an actor.

People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with being an actor in the public eye, but I haven't found a comfortable way to deal with it.

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.