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I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

I always felt an outsider.

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.'

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders.

I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.

I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.