I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't like sympathetic characters.
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
There are so many characters I want to play. I'm greedy about acting.
None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.
You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.