It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.
That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.
Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.
The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.
I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.
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.
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.