Justin Prentice Quotes

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I'm happy to try on as many characters as I can.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different personalities from my own. I get to say things I normally wouldn't say or act in ways I normally wouldn't act. After all, such roles are more challenging because you really have to immerse yourself in the character.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

I enjoy working on new, different types of characters. Playing a range is what excites me.

My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!