Josh Hopkins (William Joshua Hopkins) Quotes
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I'm an actor.
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.
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I know I'm not the consummate Bollywood heroine. But I'm working hard on it.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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It's about working when nobody's watching.
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I don't see the point in working just to be working.
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
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Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.
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It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver.
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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
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I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.
