I don't take the roles home with me. I don't work that way. I don't understand that; I mean, I really don't when I hear that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.
Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.
In the end, it's your job to own the role, and in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.
There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.
I choose roles that are not me.
As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.
When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That's one of the great things about acting - letting yourself go.
Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.
I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.