I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.
Look at all the magazines: There's always 10 ways to be better at something.
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.