I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'
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I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'
I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.
I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a script.
I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.
In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.
Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.
A character is as much about what you do as what you say.
I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'
I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.
You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.