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.
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.
There's a chunk of myself in every part I play.
You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.
I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.
What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.
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.
There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.
I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.
A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.
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