Matthew Fox Quotes

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• It’s sort of a show about the human species, not a show about anybody from any particular country or any nationality or any religious background.
• His house has become a Mecca for all the other actors… He opens the door for everyone to come over on Sundays
• I shaved off all my hair the day I wrapped Party of Five. It was incredibly liberating.
• Initially I was approached to do modeling, but I declined, before a more lucrative option emerged. I was looking for a way to put myself through school. 
• I was studying very hard, I was athletically very involved, so I started doing TV commercials, because for a day’s work you get paid every time they run. I had some success with it: I did two or three commercials while I was at Columbia.
• It was totally inspired, totally ripped off the idea from Jeff Bridges. I’m unashamed to admit that. I have a friend, Scott Wolf, who worked on a movie, White Squall, with Jeff Bridges and I remember seeing the book that Scott got from that project. I was like, ‘Oh, that’s the coolest cast and crew gift anybody could ever give anybody.
• I loved it. I looked at it as a sort of graduate programme for me: I had to learn about acting on film.
• I was very thankful to be in a situation where I was working on a show that was so well received and well written, I was being paid pretty well, and had the opportunity to grow and learn a lot as an actor.
• Oh, it would have been really different. I would have enjoyed playing it.
• What we as a cast went through that first season mirrored what you saw on screen: people with no preexisting history, thrown together on an island; becoming a tight-knit bunch in the course of trying to make sense of this weird world. Then, to have these other characters come in – it’s added an interesting new energy both to the show and our experience.
• She is absolutely beautiful, and obviously the Jack and Kate relationship is one that I like a lot!
• I really felt like after six years of the show, I needed to drop out for a while. I wanted to let audiences forget about me as that particular character. I’d been in people’s living rooms for six years playing Charlie Salinger, and I think people thought that’s who I was. I went away, did some plays in small theatres, which was fantastic. Then I came back with something much darker and edgier, a long way from Party of Five.
• He was going to set the audience up the way the pilot episode goes now where you’re starting with Jack Shephard, and you can see he’s the guy, his is the perspective on the situation, and then suddenly, in the second act he was going to kill him off. But after showing the version to his trusted friends and family the feedback he got was “it’s absolutely great, but you simply cannot kill off Jack Shephard.”
• Every week when people get done watching an episode of LOST, they have no idea what’s going to happen next. And they can’t wait to find out, that’s what storytelling is about.
• It was a super experience, and I’m really proud of it. It did exactly what I wanted it to. I’m very selective with what I choose to do. I was turning down quite a lot of stuff before Lost came along.
• I’ll always be a Tastycake fan, but I haven’t had any for a long time.
• It’s a snappy role, it’s a fun role and Josh does such a great job with it. We have a really good time playing those two characters and really messing with each other. We have days when we don’t talk to each other too much, and then we hug each other and move on.
• Cardio is the only way for me. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like to be in good shape. I have my own vanity, for sure, but you feel better when you’re healthier.
• It was one of the few times in my career I’ve ever gone to meet somebody without reading a script. It was top secret, and nobody was allowed to read it. So I went in just knowing about Abrams, literally nothing else. 
• I never go in that blind. Upon meeting me, I think he really saw me as Jack Shephard. I said That’s great, but I don’t know who Jack Shephard is.