When I go onstage, every situation I have to play, I feel pain. When I sing 'Madama Butterfly' I feel completely everything she felt: It's horrible.
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.
A fight scene with a crazy can be quite physical. You don't feel it while you're acting, but each day you go, that hurts.
Acting is a subtle combination of hiding and revealing yourself, and as I'm not an extrovert, this is painful for me.
I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
If someone asks me to play myself, I've got problems. There's more pain involved.
Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'
I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that I was going into my dressing room at lunch.
