I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.
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You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.
You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.
In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.
You and the character just become the same person in a way. There isn't really a character; it's just you creating this illusion.
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.
When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.
It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.
I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.
There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been.
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