Directors would tell me, 'We want you to play a character a little less complex than you are.' Yeah, sure. What they mean is, 'You're playing a dummy.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.
It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.
When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
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.
Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
You bring a little bit of yourself into every character you play. We're multifaceted creatures.
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.