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I liked being in the spotlight.

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.

Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.

When I finish a film, I like to drastically change my appearance. I get sick of looking at the same thing in the mirror for months at a time. So when a film's over, I'll do something like shave my head.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

The first important movie that I did, I shaved my head for the movie. When the hair grew back, I had white hair for the first time in my life.