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Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.

Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.

Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that.

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.