Joshua Jackson Quotes

United States, Actor
June 11, 1978

Joshua Browning Carter Jackson is a Canadian-American actor. He has appeared in primetime television and in over 30 film roles. His well-known roles include Pacey Witter in Dawson's Creek, Charlie Conway in The Mighty Ducks film series, Peter Bishop in Fringe, and Cole Lockhart in The Affair. Jackson won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in the Canadian independent film One Week.

When you're working on a television series, you only get a very short off-season. The scheduling of TV is relentless.

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TV, particularly network television, gives you a much greater opportunity to tell a long-form story, to develop a character and keep it detailed. Film, by its nature, is more finite.

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- Nature
- Film
- Finite

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

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- Life
- End
- Neatly
When you behave well towards somebody regardless of what you're receiving, you feel better about yourself. So be decent to people.

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- People
- Behave
- Decent
The majority of fathers that I saw when I was growing up in Vancouver didn't take the responsibility to look after their kids, and I was aware that society is geared towards punishing single women.

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- Women
- Society
- Punishing
I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

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- People
- Acting
- Fools
There's a romance and power to live theater.

Joshua Jackson
- Power
- Theater
- Romance
My hope is always to be able to find well-written, interesting material with good people and then actually be able to get those jobs.

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- Find
- Jobs
- Material

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

Joshua Jackson
- America
- Education
- Values
Being in love also means learning not to say anything until she's had coffee.

Joshua Jackson
- Love
- Coffee
- Say