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In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

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.

You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

I am just convinced that people want to see people on TV who are more like themselves.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.

The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.

If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often the case in television.

As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.