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Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That's one of the great things about acting - letting yourself go.

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different personalities from my own. I get to say things I normally wouldn't say or act in ways I normally wouldn't act. After all, such roles are more challenging because you really have to immerse yourself in the character.

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

Every role that I play is a gift and is something that I approach differently.