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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It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.
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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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When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.
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Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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I'd never planned on being a model.
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I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.
