Josh Holloway Quotes

United States, Actor
July 20, 1969

Josh Lee Holloway is an American actor, model and producer, best known for his roles as James "Sawyer" Ford on the American television show Lost and as Gabriel Vaughn in the CBS drama Intelligence. He also stars as Will Bowman on the science fiction drama Colony.

Also known as Model, Producer

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.

Josh Holloway
- Artists
- Side
- Come From
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.

Josh Holloway
- Life
- History
- Existence

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.

Josh Holloway
- Judgment
- Target
- Leading
As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me, and it's given me confidence to move forward.

Josh Holloway
- Actor
- Move
- Experiment
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.

Josh Holloway
- Experience
- Ideas
- Minds
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.

Josh Holloway
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.

Josh Holloway
- Life
- Art
- Script
As an actor, it seems like we're always trying to get a job, so when you actually have a job, it's just amazing to get to work on your art on a daily basis and do what you love.

Josh Holloway
- Work
- Love
- Job

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

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.

Josh Holloway