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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.