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I'm not hiding who I am anymore - not pretending I'm something I'm not.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

Since I think I am very boring in normal life, I tend to hide behind all these exciting characters, making people believe that I am someone else entirely. That feeling is very powerful.

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.

This is what I would say to my pupil: 'You have become only your fame and left behind most of who you were. How are you going to deal with that? Will you lose that person forever? Have you become someone else without really knowing it? Do you always have to stay in character for people to like you? Do you know that you are in character?'.