All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, you
“I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don't dislike it.”
“Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.”