One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.
We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.
You have to play your characters, not like them.
Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.
You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.
Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.
It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.
In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.