You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.
You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.
I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.
In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.
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 think as an actor... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity.
Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.
It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
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.
If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.