Don't think twice. If it's a character that you feel compelled to play and story that you feel needs to be told, don't think twice.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.
I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.
I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.
It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.
You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate.
When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
No opposing quotes found.