76 Quotes by Josh Holloway

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I love mysteries - just in an old school way.

Even in the middle of tragedy, we find moments of humor, moments of tenderness, of simple happiness.

It's the oldest story in human existence. We've colonized someone or been colonized throughout human history. It's amazing how fast we comply and try to get a life out of that.