United Kingdom, June 16 -- Patricia Arquette "didn't want to be limited" by her beauty during her acting career.

The Hollywood actress, 57, has admitted she worried about being cast for her good looks because she felt "a really intense conflict"about being valued for her appearance and being attractive has a "short shelf-life".

She told New York Post column PageSix: "I really was conscious about trying to get out of that ingenue situation as quickly as possible.

"Beauty felt really dangerous to me and a bit scary. It also felt one-note, and felt like [it had] a short shelf life."

Arquette went on to explain she took a role in 2001 movie Human Nature playing a character with hypertrichosis - a condition that causes excessive hair growt...