I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner my acting teacher told us. When you create a character it's like making a chair except instead of making someting out of wood you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft – using yourself to create a character.
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.
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