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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

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.

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.

It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves.

You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens.

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.

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.