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First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

I think as an actor... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity.

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

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

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.

No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.