Nicholas Braun Quotes

It's always fun to play characters that are different from me.

When it's all said and done, I'm very, very glad to work in this business, but that's exactly what it is. It's a business, and I get to do the fun half of it. I get paid to pretend. I get to play really great characters. And, we have such a wonderful writer. She just knows people so intricately, and it's so fun to be able to act out her words.

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

I love playing an alien.

I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven.

I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.

I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice to get the part.

I love the idea of playing something stupid or romantic. I'm not the smartest man in the room. I listen, and I learn, and I observe, but I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.

One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.

Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a cameo in a show or do a movie, it's a lot of fun and it's always great stepping outside of yourself and either playing a bizarro version of yourself or playing a character.

For me as an actor, it's really fun to play someone who's not human.

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

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

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.