When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.
You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.
Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.
It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
Sometimes I think it's easier to play someone who's very, very different from yourself. Besides, I wouldn't want to play people who are just like me; that would get awfully boring very fast!
It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.
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