Top 43 Quotes & Sayings by Joshua Jackson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Joshua Jackson.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Joshua Jackson

Joshua Carter Jackson is a Canadian-American actor. He is known for his starring role as Charlie Conway in Mighty Ducks, as Pacey Witter in The WB teen drama series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003), Peter Bishop in the Fox science fiction series Fringe (2008–2013), Cole Lockhart in the Showtime drama series The Affair (2014–2018), Mickey Joseph in the drama miniseries When They See Us (2019), Bill Richardson in the drama miniseries Little Fires Everywhere (2020), and Dr. Christopher Duntsch in Dr. Death (2021).

I was briefly in the original version of 'Tombstone,' but I didn't make the final cut because that movie went through a couple of different permutations.
Trust me - never in my life did I think I'd be carrying my groceries home and have a stop-and-chat with Karl Lagerfeld.
Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.
I've had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you.
My hope is always to be able to find well-written, interesting material with good people and then actually be able to get those jobs. — © Joshua Jackson
My hope is always to be able to find well-written, interesting material with good people and then actually be able to get those jobs.
You know what I like about a beard? You can always look contemplative.
What I like about 'Lay the Favourite' is that it shows gambling as a profession, as this real grind-it-out job, with no glamour about it at all.
If you don't like my work in 'The Affair,' that's fine, but I'll stand by the work because I felt that everything that went on camera was what I intended to go on camera.
There's a romance and power to live theater.
I'll cop to this: so much of doing a 22-episode show is just keeping your head above water.
Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!
When you're working on a television series, you only get a very short off-season. The scheduling of TV is relentless.
I think pop culture would have survived without me!
The majority of fathers that I saw when I was growing up in Vancouver didn't take the responsibility to look after their kids, and I was aware that society is geared towards punishing single women.
The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors. — © Joshua Jackson
The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.
I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.
If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.
When you behave well towards somebody regardless of what you're receiving, you feel better about yourself. So be decent to people.
We've all had that moment, the first time you're exposed to live theater, and it's shocking in the best possible way. You see something and say to yourself, 'I didn't know this could exist.'
The fan base and the passion of the fan base is a large part of the story of the show 'Fringe.'
I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.
Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.
For me, as an audience member, I'm always most engaged by serialized storytelling, so as an actor, the thing that I take away from it is how much fun it is to perform a serialized story.
TV, particularly network television, gives you a much greater opportunity to tell a long-form story, to develop a character and keep it detailed. Film, by its nature, is more finite.
Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.
I'm not really the type to wear my heart on my sleeve. I would let someone know if I liked them, but it takes a while for me to fall in love.
I'm a Vancouver boy, and I grew up outdoors, so any time I can be outside, everything is good.
Doing a play in New York is ticking off a major, major bucket list thing for me.
Truthfully, the process of making 22 episodes of television a year is not very pleasant.
I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.
For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.
The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education. — © Joshua Jackson
The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.
'Dawson's Creek' was my college experience.
I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.
I've always felt more comfortable in the company of women, and as far as girlfriends go, they've each been a learning experience. You meet someone at a certain point in your life, then break apart, but you always share that time.
I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.
I have lots of hard-earned knowledge about women through heartbreak - and social faux pas. When I was about 15, thinking I was engaging in light conversation, I asked a woman when she was due. Of course, she wasn't pregnant. I learnt the lesson never to ask again.
With 'Dawson's Creek,' I wasn't a fan of '90210,' and that wasn't particularly my genre of show. 'Fringe,' on the other hand, is right up my alley.
Ive had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you dont, she just completely overpowers you.
Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you dream of them in a different way than I do.
If girls were going after me, I would not only admit it, but I would probably exaggerate about the swarming masses. I can flirt and have fun, but at the end of the day, I'm not Tom Cruise. Girls are not falling all over me.
If I only dated actresses, Id be a very lonely man. — © Joshua Jackson
If I only dated actresses, Id be a very lonely man.
Being in love also means learning not to say anything until she's had coffee.
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