Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

"A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way."

I am a man of my word.

Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.