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Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.

It is my job to step into different characters.

All of my experiences modeling, acting, doing theater, it's all in the work now. And the work freed me to transform myself.

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.