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Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

Two things are always happening in acting. On the one hand, it's a team sport. We're all pulling together. But on the other, you have to look after your own character. Guard their interests.

A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.

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.

When you're playing a character, I think it's always better not to judge that character.