Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.
“I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.”
“What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.”