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People play with pain all the time.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

I just want to play until I think I don't feel good - and if I can still do it. If I can't do it, I don't think I'll keep going once I don't feel I'm playing the way I want to.

They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hitting. It was a weird thing. I don't know if it was because I couldn't do too much, and I was just trying to stay up through the middle and not hurt myself.

A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.