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I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.