Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.