When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
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. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.
Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.
I choose roles that are not me.
Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.
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.
I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.
I don't think I've ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role - I just see what comes up.
I like roles that people don't recognize me in.
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.