United Kingdom, July 18 -- Pamela Anderson thinks all actors need to show "courage".

The 58-year-old actress actually feels she performs at her best whenever she's "terrified", like when she sang in The Naked Gun.

The Hollywood star told Entertainment Weekly: "You have to have courage. You have to have courage to be an actor at all. But that's my happy place is when I'm terrified.

"I actually really enjoy singing. I love being on stage . The feeling is so rewarding because I feel like we repress so much of ourselves, and especially as an artist, and I love to write and journal and write poetry, but performing and working on a movie is another way to express yourself because everything is loaded."

Pamela actually leaned on her own life...