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Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.

My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us.

I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.