“I don't consider myself pretty, I was never a pretty boy, I'm not going to be a pretty man and it's not something I truly aspire too. When I think of iconic men I think of that Forties era, of a guy in a good suit and a hat. That's when men were men.”

— Joshua Jackson

As quoted in the article 'Canada dry' in the London Evening Standard (March 11th, 2005)

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