Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's job is not to play only people he can identify with.
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As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.
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.
As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.
That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category, it means you're working. So that's good!
The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.
I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.
If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.