Josh Holloway quotes

Josh Holloway is an American actor and former model, best known for his role as James "Sawyer" Ford on the television series Lost. His compelling performances and charismatic presence have earned him a dedicated fan following. He has also starred in other notable projects such as Colony and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Here are 18 of his quotes:

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff. (Josh Holloway)
I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway. View quote
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I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it. View quote
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I'm a private kind of person. View quote
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To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing. View quote
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I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue. View quote
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I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started. View quote
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I want to stay in Hawaii a little while. I'm kind of liking it over there. View quote
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I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out. View quote
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Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed. View quote
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I grew up on a dirt road with brothers. (Josh Holloway)
TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold. View quote
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We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art. View quote
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Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work. View quote
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When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it. View quote
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Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that. View quote
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I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it. View quote
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They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go. View quote
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Photo: Kristin Dos Santos from Los Angeles, California, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Actor
Born: July 20, 1969
Quotes count: 18