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In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about 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.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

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.

For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.