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I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

I'm primarily a character actress.

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 always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

I don't tend to picture my characters as actors and actresses.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.