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I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.

I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someone's past, whether you're portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.