I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.