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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I'm just a character actor.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

I'm a character actor.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I don't really get a buzz from playing characters that are similar to me 'cause that's not acting to me.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.