Jesse Johnson Quotes

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

I think acting is a gift.

I'm grateful for any opportunity to act.

Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

I like to do a lot of different things in acting.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

To have a drama teacher as a mentor was just like, 'Oh, what a gift.'

My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.

I love doing characters that surprise people and showing what I am, which is an actor, first and foremost.

As an actor, you should always keep your trump card hidden from your audience. I want the audience to keep expecting more and more from me. I want to do 'different' work - good and memorable roles - so that audience appreciate me more. That's why I love to surprise my audience with something they never expect me to do.

I'm an actor and I'm able to do a lot of things and play a lot of characters.

The only thing I have tried to do is be a part of different films and bring out a different side of me as an actor every time I play a character. I would like to be known as a versatile actor.

It's a huge compliment that people continue to cast me in different types of roles believing in me and the fact that I can carry it off.

As an actor you want to explore something you haven't done.

If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy.

It's great to have actors who are often cast against type.

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.