When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.
I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.