When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When people come up to me and say, 'Oh my God - you're that character,' I feel like replying, 'No, I'm just like you; it's just a job.'
In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.
I always try to make each character my own.
Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.
I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.
I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.
My characters always like themselves.
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.