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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?
I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.