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
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 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.
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.
I love doing voiceover work. I started doing voiceover work when I had just dropped out of school, and the first few professional jobs I got were plays, but then I started making money doing voice-overs.
I did as many takes as I could, naked from the waist down, ... If I was framed from anywhere above the waist, I would always just like to hang it out.
As I've gotten older and seen people around me evolving and moving on with life, I just have a stronger sense of my own mortality and time itself becomes more precious. I don't want to spend this precious and limited time on things that don't necessarily bring me happiness.
I just didn't like going to school.
I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.
I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.
I went there to try to defuse the situation.