Michael Shannon

I'm like, well, you actually don't even know who I am.

But they get very personally involved.

I don't know.

I have this annoying proclivity to see all the characters I play as distinct and unique individuals.

Now, some of them, there may be a propensity for darkness or being troubled or whatnot, but they're all very different to me.

Even like I said earlier, the difference between John Givings and

Nelson Van Alden is pretty astronomical for me.

Yeah, yeah.

Or the difference between Nelson Van Alden and Richard Kuklinski from The Iceman is very different.

What's similar is it's me.

That's the similarity is it's always me.

It's always my body and my face and my, you know...

And I guess, you know, I'm a big fella and I got this giant head and it's not too difficult for me to seem intimidating, I suppose.

But it couldn't be further from what I'm actually like.

I'm always reminded of something that I believe happens.

is attributed to Bob Dylan.

This notion that what he's done in the past isn't terribly compelling to him on a day-to-day basis.

He's not sitting around listening to blonde on blonde and saying, boy, I really crushed it.

You know, he's thinking about what he's doing now.

And I kind of look at it that way too.