Words matter. These are the best Jake Epstein Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.
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.
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.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.
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.
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.
The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That’s the ultimate goal.
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.
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.
If you’d ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.
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.
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!
I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.
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.
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.
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.
I came from a huge extended family of musicians.
I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.
I’m always surprised at how many people remember me from ‘Degrassi.’
I try to keep my private life private.
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.
