As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.
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.
Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
I'm just a character actor.
As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.
The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'
I think as an actor... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity.