Melbourne, Dec 13 (ANI): Rachel Weisz says she would not be sane if she did not act.

“If I didn’t act, I’d be a nutcase. Some people have to do it. They have a lot of emotion they have to get out,” the Daily Telegraph quoted her, as saying.

The Oscar winning actress says even though she was “dreamer” as a child, she was passionate about films.

She said: “I was very spaced out…. But I loved movies, I loved plays and I loved stories. When I was in the audience at the cinema, I wanted to be on the other side… up there, telling the story.”

Weisz, 39, recalled that her parents weren’t very supportive of an acting career for her.

“I wouldn’t say they massively encouraged it,” she said.

She added: “But, with time, they were sort of all right with it. They were the kind of people who were like, ‘You have to go to college first and get a degree.’ I was brainwashed into thinking that was the way forward and I obeyed politely.”

Even as she studied English at Cambridge University her acting went on unabated - she and her pals founded a theatre troupe, Cambridge Talking Tongues.

“It was good times, and innocent times,” she says. “It was pure, idealistic, naive and creative.”

The company bagged an award at the Edinburgh Festival, and now Weisz knew what she wanted to do in her life, more than ever before.

She bagged a cameo appearance in the 1995 sci-fi action-horror flick Death Machine before she came to be widely recognised for her role in the Mummy in the 1999 blockbuster, The Mummy. (ANI)