Justin Chon Quotes

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

I am an actor, and actors should be willing to play all kind of roles.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

I don't get called very often to play innocents.

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

I could say, 'I want to play a French-African humpback,' but I probably won't get that role.

What people forget is that I'm an actress. That's the wonderful thing about what I do. I get to play different roles.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him.

I'm an actor. I have to play weird characters, quirky characters, strange characters, sometimes characters I don't understand.

When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.

I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.

I work according to the kind of character they want me to play.

Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we haven't got past anything.

As an actress, you have to be very naive.

I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.