Josh Holloway Quotes

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.

I like to jump into different worlds. I'm attracted to the emotional rollercoaster of acting. Now I've been doing it for so many years, I must rather enjoy it.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I know acting isn't real, that it's temporary. If there is any theme to the roles I play, it is emotional vulnerability and availability.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a lot of actors because in a weird way, psychology and acting kind of seem interwoven.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.