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I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.

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.

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

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.

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