As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get the time to be yourself, you should take it.
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As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.
The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.
As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.
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. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.
As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.
As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.
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.
I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.
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