James Hong Quotes

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should bring to the song. Voicing a character was very similar. It was high energy, and I had to really think about the emotion of what was going on in the scene.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

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

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

I'm drawn to roles because they excite me intellectually and emotionally.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

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

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story.

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.