Milan Kundera Quotes

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

But I do believe that's when you do your soul-searching. I think when you have these trials that life gives you, it is an opportunity to find out who you are. Not just who you are when everything's great, but who are you when everything is taken away from you and you have nothing.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

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

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

You have to be someone.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

I think a life of a human being is not something you can explain in a few interview questions. The stuff you do in the media is sometimes a great reflection and sometimes not a great reflection of who you are as a person.

Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

I can only be the madman that I've been so long.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

There are always two sides to a person. CL is me, and so is Chaelin.