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Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.
When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'
You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.
You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.
Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.
Early in my career, I'd plan something out for my characters. But I've learned that if you know who your character is and you go on instinct, it won't be wrong. It's never wrong. It's just different.
In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.
The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.