I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My whole life, people have been like, 'I don't know if you're playing or serious.'
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
I really like playing other people. There is no other feeling like it, to have a different voice come out of you and to have a different life for a couple of hours. I like being myself. But maybe it's like you ride a bike every day and someone says, 'For two hours tonight do you want to ride this Harley?' You'd be like, 'OK yeah!'
It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me.
Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.
Actors sometimes immerse themselves into it so deeply that the line between who they are and their character can become blurred. For me, I think it's just about getting clearer on my whole life and who I am in order to make it possible for me to play whatever character is presented to me at a particular time.
If it's time for your character to go, it's time for your character to go - you know what I mean? That's it. It doesn't matter who you are.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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