Miranda Otto — Australian Actress born on December 16, 1967,

Miranda Otto is an Australian actress. The daughter of actors Barry and Lindsay Otto, and the sister of actress Gracie Otto, Brisbane-born Miranda began her acting career at age 18 in 1986, and has appeared in a variety of independent and major studio films. Otto made her major film debut in Emma's War, in which she played a teenager who moves to Australia's bush country during World War II... (wikipedia)

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.
Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.
It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.
I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.
If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.