There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.
You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
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.
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.
There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.
I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.