Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.
I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.