Quotes by Jake Epstein - Page 1

I try to keep my private life private.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Coachella
Paparazzi
Private Life
Trying
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I came from a huge extended family of musicians.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Extended Family
Huge
Musician
Extended
Musicians
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I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Falling In Love
Ordinary
Teenager
Everyone Else
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I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Player
Rabbi
Soccer
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I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Best Family
Lottery
World
Best Family World
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I'm always surprised at how many people remember me from 'Degrassi.'
Jake Epstein / Actor
People
Remember
Remember Me
Me Remember People
How Many People
Surprised
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I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Canada
Juilliard
School
Theatre
National Theatre
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The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Dream
Broadway
Goal
Roles
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Originate
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I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Breathe
Needs
Shows
Stretch
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I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Men
Canada
Fans
Hero
Spider Man
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If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Men
Broadway
Debut
Laughed
Spider Man
Spiders
Would Be
Face Your Me
Face Me Your
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I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Band
Play
School
Toronto
Drums
Frequently
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The fact is, 'Billy Elliot' is an incredible show, for any age and any gender. 'Degrassi' fans would absolutely fall in love with 'Billy Elliot.'
Jake Epstein / Actor
Age
Falling In Love
Fans
Billy
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'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Dark
Haunting
Melody
Pop Song
Song
Tomorrow
Words
Love Me Song
Love Tomorrow Me
Love Me
Pretty
Deep
Still
Lyrics
Pop
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I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Kids
Spiritual
Thinking
Deeply
Help People
Other Kids
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I'm a pretty upbeat person. I think I sometimes get cast as these brooding types because I bring light and joy, which hopefully makes them more likable.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Brooding
Upbeat
Likable
Types
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The kids all literally think I'm Spider-Man, and they ask me how I shoot my webs. It's flattering and crazy, but it's Spider-Man they're in awe of, not Jake Epstein.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Awe
Flattering
Spider Man
Web
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I was a jock, hardcore sports all the way down the line, but I heard that if you auditioned for this arts school, you got time off school, and that sounded good to me.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Art
Sports
Hardcore
School
Time Good Sports
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I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that.
Jake Epstein / Actor
X Men
Men
Halloween
Reading
Spider Man
Dressed
Primarily
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I really love young Tom Hanks. He's just one of my favorites. He's a great, quirky every-man. I also love Zach Braff. I really love actors that are quirky and interesting, that sort of try to portray 'normal' people.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Quirky
Men
Just One
Love You
Normal
People
Love Great People
Favorites
Normal People
Portray
Tom
Tom Hanks
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In Montreal, there is a friend of mine at school who is a jazz pianist with an amazing voice, and we sort of have this fusion/soul/R&B/folk music kind of thing. We've been keeping it low-key and opening for some friends.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Jazz
Low Key
Montreal
Opening
Pianist
Voice
Friend
Mine
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What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's charming about the character. He's anyone. He's a huge nerd that ends up being this huge superhero.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Men
Believe
Character
Charming
Nerd
Spider Man
Believes
Suit
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I was obsessed with X-Men as a kid, and I would have to go and play every last one of them. My sister was obsessed with Barbies. So we would create these X-Men-Barbie combos and perform weird musicals where they interacted with each other.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Sister
Barbie
Musicals
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If I'm ever at a mall or some kind of place where there's a lot of younger girls, some people will recognize me from 'Degrassi.' But then it won't happen for a long time. It's funny - it happens more here in the States than it does in Canada.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Canada
Funny Time Me
Mall
Recognize
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My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles - I grew up with this music, and I was aware of how special this music was to a lot of people.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Folk Music
Folk
James
James Taylor
Simon
Taylor
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The longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that you have no idea what kinds of roles are possible for you - dream roles can take you by surprise. That being said, I need to play Hamlet one day. I'd also love to be in a play that I have written myself.
Jake Epstein / Actor
No Idea
One Day
Surprise
Love Myself Day
Hamlet
Longer
Realized
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When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don't think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Cameron
Performing
Shocked
Toronto
Artful
Dodger
Oliver
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Obviously, doing TV and doing theater are completely different because they're two totally different mediums. On stage, you worry about your voice and how you move physically. On TV, something like an eye twitch is what they could be looking for from you because it's so contained.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Mediums
Your Voice Doing
Contained
Twitch
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For those that don't know much about 'American Idiot' or Green Day, just know that it's my generation's The Who's 'Tommy' or Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' It was an album that really spoke to a generation. The theatrical show encapsulates that feeling and brings it to an even wider audience.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Feelings
Green
Idiot
Theatrical
Wall
Brings
Floyd
Green Day
Pink
Spoke
Tommy
Wider
Wider Audience
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I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Decision
Theatre
Toronto
Life People My Life
Decisions
Life Decision People
Major
Quit
Regretted
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There's just nothing funnier or crazier than that - doing your Broadway debut as Spider-Man in 'Spider-Man' the musical. It was, like, the last thing I could have ever possibly imagined happening. I mean, I would tell people I was playing Spider-Man, and people would just break out laughing because it was so ridiculous!
Jake Epstein / Actor
Break
Broadway
Debut
Laughing
Musical
Spider Man
Your People Nothing
Your People Doing
People Nothing Doing
Crazier
Funnier
Happening
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I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!'
Jake Epstein / Actor
Long
Naked
Singing
Thinking
Truthful
Note
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The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Centre
Green
Hershey
Performing
Awesome
Perform
Concert
Green Day
Ten Years
Tour
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When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we auditioned was that we found out you got to miss a couple days of school to do the audition. Without actually wanting to go to arts school, I accidentally got in. My parents encouraged me to try it, and I ended falling in love with performing.
Jake Epstein / Actor
Falling In Love
Performing
Sole
Toronto
Love Me Parents
Accidentally
Audition
Encouraged
Ended
Falling
Wanting
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I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts. However, wearing black tights was something I dreaded... and still have nightmares about it to this day. I think I was a pretty good dancer. I suppose that training helped me land parts in musicals... or has just given me nightmares!
Jake Epstein / Actor
Art
Drama
School
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