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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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.
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I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.
