I've never been more comfortable in a part than with Colonel Potter.
It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
Often, everybody is comfortable with their role in life, and they forget about the people who are uncomfortable.
I have played mother many times in south films. And I really have no problem with it.
Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.
I have grown up on literature and mythological stories. They have fascinated me since childhood, and I believe every character that I portray on screen is an extension of my personality to some degree. That is why whatever role I play seems in my comfort zone.
As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the audience think. There's a liberation about it.
Being able to feel free and comfortable in your character's skin is so important.
Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my roles, then how will I do it? So, with all my roles, somewhere I feel comfortable about them, and that is why I play them.
If it is within limits and forms part of the storyline, I have no hesitation in doing glamour roles.
It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.
The role I have always felt most at home in is being 'Dr. B.'
