NCIS Alum Pauley Perrette Says Returning to Acting Would Take Away from ‘Life of True Authenticity’

> “I’m not ungrateful for the benefits that it [acting] gave to me,” she told the outlet. “But I’m a different person now, and I want to be here for it – the good and the bad and the painful. I want to be me all the time, and it takes a good amount of courage for me to say that to myself but it’s authentically how I feel.”