Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.
I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.
I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.
When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.
The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.
Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.
I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.
I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.