Sam J. Jones Quotes

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

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

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

I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

You just have to play the character.

Zachary Roerig who plays Matt, he's just a character.

I think Johnny Depp could play just about any role - I'd love to see what he would do with the Red Queen!

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

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.

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I really enjoy being an actor!

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

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 playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.