Messed up ideas about acting

From her book, Brave:

“I channeled my efforts into playing Paige, a lovely character, but very much a character. A girl who grew up into a woman on the show. Meanwhile, my own growth as a woman was stunted because of it.
I had so many life milestones on camera instead of in real life. My “first” wedding was a very meta experience. I walked down the aisle with a fake dad, with fake friends, fake sisters, a fake husband-to-be, a fake pastor: it was all fake fake fake. I went through the emotions as if it was really happening to me, because that’s what acting is after all. It was particularly weird faking a life event that has been sold to all of us as some monumental moment—“the most important day of a girl’s life.” I don’t necessarily agree that your wedding day should be the single greatest event in your life, but having it happen on-screen for the first time robbed something from me. All told I was fake married three times on film before my “real” marriage. By then, I was repeating an emotional scene I’d already played. Your entertainment comes at a cost to us performers. You should know this and acknowledge.