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It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.