Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.
It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.
Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.
It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.
Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
Sometimes I think it's easier to play someone who's very, very different from yourself. Besides, I wouldn't want to play people who are just like me; that would get awfully boring very fast!
I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.
When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.
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