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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

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 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 think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

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.

I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.

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

It's weird that I've ended up playing so many real live people, because I was never any good at impersonations at school.