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Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

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. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

You have to like the characters you play.

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.