Zoe Lister-Jones Quotes

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.

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

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 always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can become someone else completely and it's fun.

I'm pretty far from the character I play, so it's fun to mess around and be a 15-year-old again.

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.

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.

It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.

Well, I'm not at all like the tough, sexy femme fatale in Confidence but it's fun to play people who're really different from you, from different cultures and places. I suppose I'm a bit quieter than most of the people I play.

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.

I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting were these characters that were a tad bit loony. But I love it. Those are the most fun characters to play!

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I love playing villains.

For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.

It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.

Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?

I like playing an array of different roles. From the fun, comedic roles to the serious roles. It's always fun to play the role that either closely represents your own personality or the role that is completely opposite of yourself.

It's nice to play someone who functions in a very different way than I do.

I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen. If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is for me.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.