As first and foremost a character actor, I've always resisted the temptation to cure any of the people I've played or make them lovable in any way; you've just got to celebrate them for what they are.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that it's never done; it's never perfect, and so it's the process. It's like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.
Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.
I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.
I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.
It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
My old man, he's done it very differently from me. He had years of honing his craft and years of doing all that stuff before he even had to worry about 'Game of Thrones.' So he's absolutely established himself as an actor without the fear of having to have a personality as well.
Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
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