"Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water."
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
Acting is not about being someone else. It's about finding the truth in yourself and bringing it to the surface.
We are all just fragments of a larger narrative, trying to make sense of our place in the world.