Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
作家在自己的国家必须是个陌生人。
You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
I'm very suspicious of the word 'style'. It's a word that people use to categorize things when they don't understand them.