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I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I’m so nervous and obsessed. I’m just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I’m really tense.

I’m just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it’s because I’ve played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

I’m very serious about acting.

It’s about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It’s about relationships, and the bottom line is, that’s why you care.

My job as an actress is to make things work , come up with reasons of my own , not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?