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Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.