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" Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion. "
Me
Acting
Emotion
" All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain. "
Brain
Real
Time
" Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters. "
Empathy
Myself
Characters
" As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business. "
Someone
Business
Actor
" As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough. "
Energy
Passion
Achieving
" Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core. "
World
Acting
Say
" Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person. "
You
Person
Dance
" Dance is such a stressful environment. "
Environment
Stressful
Dance
" Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities. "
Insecurities
Young
Dancers
" Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part. "
Yourself
Accent
Doing
" Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely. "
Think
You
Independent
" Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three. "
Three
Since
Been
" Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles. "
You
Ways
Useful
" Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down. "
Always
Simple
Down
" I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing. "
Live
Time
Character
" I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again. "
Thinking
Start
Learn
" I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set. "
Much
I Can
Film
" I definitely have an appreciation for fashion. "
Fashion
Definitely
Appreciation
" I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. "
College
Love
History
" I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person. "
Consider
Myself
Hollywood
" I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well. "
Always
Working
Want
" I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited. "
Excited
Got
Role
" I like characters who remind me of someone I know. "
Someone
Remind
Who
" I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me. "
Know
Like
Me
" I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing. "
Like
Character
Doing
" I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of. "
Eyes
Turn
You
" I like to think of myself as an observer. "
Think
Like
Observer
" I love Europe. "
Love
I Love
Europe
" I love Portland. I think it's one of the best cities - I obviously haven't been to very many places, but I had one of the best times I've had on a set there. "
Had
Best
Places
" I love seeing my family. "
I Love
Family
Love
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