Justin Long
Justin Long
Justin Jacob Long is an American actor. He is known for roles in such films as Jeepers Creepers, Dodgeball, Accepted, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Live Free or Die Hard, Alpha and Omegaand Comet. He played Warren Cheswick on the NBC TV series Ed, and appeared with John Hodgman in TV commercials for Apple's "Get a Mac" advertising campaign...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth2 June 1978
CityFairfield, CT
CountryUnited States of America
It's definitely surreal to watch yourself in a movie.
Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career Id like to emulate.
I loved 'Junebug.' It was one of my favorite films, my favorite type of film.
I always wanted to play the boyfriends of doomed girls.
I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of your own voice. That's what I enjoy most about doing voice-overs.
I really hated school and so I just wanted to stay home and watch 'I Love Lucy' and watch the movies that inspired me to the point where we are sitting here.
I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.
Aside from my love of animation, as an actor I like the total lack of vanity in terms of not having to worry at all about your appearance. You don't have to deal with hair or makeup or wardrobe.
I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.
If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.
I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.
I've never been that technologically savvy, my friends are actually amused by how infrequently I use computers.
If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials.