Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.
That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.
I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.
Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people.
You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.
I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and can tell. It's always fun to get to do things that stretch you and that you don't get to do a lot, but you never know until you see it.