Justin Long
Born on June 2, 1978, in Fairfield, Justin Long attended Fairfield College Preparatory School before going on to study at Vassar College. His education at both institutions shaped the early portion of his life before he moved into professional work in the entertainment industry.
Long built a career across several distinct areas of performance and production. As a film, television, and stage actor, he has worked across formats that call for different registers of craft, moving between the live demands of theater and the varied contexts of screen work. His occupations extend beyond performance: Long has also worked as a voice actor, a screenwriter, and a director, taking on roles that engage with storytelling from multiple positions in the creative process. Voice acting placed him in projects driven by audio and animated performance, while his work as a screenwriter and director reflects an investment in the craft that goes well beyond appearing on camera.
A citizen of the United States, Long has worked in English across the range of platforms that his multiple occupations have brought him to. His credits as both a stage actor and a television actor point to a professional scope that reaches from live performance spaces to the ongoing work of the screen, and his involvement as a director and screenwriter adds further dimension to a career that encompasses production as well as performance.
Quotes by Justin Long
Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career I'd like to emulate.
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 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’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.
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.