Justin Kirk Quotes

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don't think I'm as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

Acting has been really good me. You end up in some wild places, and I love adventure.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

The strongest moments in my life are when I'm filming. It's an adventure. As an actor I try to seduce someone, try to share something. The rest of my time is spent exploring experiences with women.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.

I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.