Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I would like to think that I'm always honest with myself and others. I guess that's what makes me a half-decent actor.
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.
In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.
I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.