I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

I use bits and pieces of others [sic] personalities to form my own. [p. 95]

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

It’s that idea of disguise that I find myself coming back to. You can really, in a sense, be anybody or anybodies, plural, in writing.

I go for a person’s personality.

I tap into three different personas to bring out the best of the character. I look at people I know. The cheeky aunties who take no nonsense and those women who think they are up there when they are not. I improvise on set too

One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that.

He was so much the picture of different kinds of assimilation that it was almost a case of multiple personalities.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

I create this persona for the show. And that's what it is. I'm an act.

If I could not assume their character, I could at least conceal my own,

I also assumed that everyone is nice and although there are genuine people, not everyone is what you think they are. Meaning, I had to learn to work with different people the best way I know how, without losing who I am

will become whatever I believe a person wants me to be in order to be liked.

The persona can eventually become ourselves, or an aspect of ourselves, to the point where we don't know which is the mask and which is the I.