Joshua Jackson Quotes

#1. He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.

Joshua Bell

#3. I've had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you.

Joshua Jackson

#4. Even though I respect many different religions, I don't really particularly just follow one.

Cristian Machado

#5. 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.

Joshua Jackson

#6. A motorcycle is an independent thing.

Ryan Hurst

#7. A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

Euripides

#8. I'm not really the type to wear my heart on my sleeve. I would let someone know if I liked them, but it takes a while for me to fall in love.

Joshua Jackson

#9. If girls were going after me, I would not only admit it, but I would probably exaggerate about the swarming masses. I can flirt and have fun, but at the end of the day, I'm not Tom Cruise. Girls are not falling all over me.

Joshua Jackson

#10. The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.

Joshua Jackson

#11. Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last

Sena Jeter Naslund

#12. If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.

Joshua Jackson

#13. Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.

Steven Moffat

#14. To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

Tom Robbins

#15. Seize the moments that are before you instead of planning for future moments that get lost in the abyss of time.

Orly Wahba

#16. Being in love also means learning not to say anything until she's had coffee.

Joshua Jackson

#17. Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you dream of them in a different way than I do.

Joshua Jackson

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

Joshua Jackson

#19. Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.

Joshua Jackson

#20. Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!

Joshua Jackson

#21. For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

Joshua Jackson

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

Joshua Jackson

#23. I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.

Joshua Jackson

#24. The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.

Joshua Jackson

#26. I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.

Joshua Jackson

#27. God creates men, but they choose each other.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#28. To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

Arsene Wenger

#29. When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

Joshua Jackson

#31. Tunner's presence created a situation, however slight, which kept him from entering into the reflective state he considered essential.

Paul Bowles