J. B. Smoove Quotes

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

I like to play different characters.

There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've seen to an expression I've heard someone use.

Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

I was always observing my siblings and hearing stories about their lives that turned out to be helpful as an actress.

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

When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

'End of Watch' was 98-percent written, and I work really hard to make it look like it's the first time I'm saying it.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

I really wanted to create some of my own characters, then it became wanting to act the parts, then it sort of grew from there because I really enjoyed doing it.

I write in character a lot.

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

I was an actor for a little bit. That's when I started to understand fiction - and that one of the great things about fiction is that you're dependent on the characters as much as they're dependent on you.