John Hodgman Quotes

Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.

I know George Burns was a very happy man.

I always just wanted to be a cheesy guy on television.

One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

I want to constantly be surprising people with different roles.

I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don't think I am like that as a person.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

What's wonderful about acting is that you get to play different roles. For instance, in 'Amelie,' I played a young mother. Some of the photoshoots, you're playing a role. I like to be able to look at a photo and say, 'Wow - that isn't even me.' I enjoy being able to project.

You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.

The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.

Luckily, the public sees me as a character actor.

In movies like 'Cape Fear,' I never played verbal characters. Now, as a grown-up, I relish playing people that are not like myself. That's what I enjoy about acting.

That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.

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

It is important for an actor to play different roles.

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