Quotes
(by and about Joseph!)
Joseph's Quotes ........ Others Quotes
What has Joseph said about acting or about other things? What have his co-stars said about him? Well, here's the place to find out! These are quotes either said by him in interviews either online or on video or cool stuff his costars have said about him. Read on...
"Everybody thinks:
'He's the star. That's cool, he says. But it's a lot of pressure.
School wants me for 20 minutes; the set wants me. A kid on the
set has to act, like, 20 years older or nothing would get
done."
-- From "In the Cross Fire", <Hollywood Reporter, Nov.
17, 1998
[Reteaming with a familiar
actor like Michael Keaton] "Makes things easier. You don't
have to wonder what the person's going to be like."
-- From "Keaton recruited his young co-star for film he
hopes might be a holiday classic", by Mark Burger, JournalNow,
December 11, 1998.
[Working with Kelly
Preston] "...was like having a second Mom."
-- From "Keaton recruited his youngg co-star for film he
hopes might be a holiday classic", by Mark Burger, JournalNow,
December 11, 1998.
"For two weeks, we had
hockey camp five days a week for three hours straight with all of
the kids in the movie. The first few days were really hard, but
then it got to be pretty cool."
-- From the "Jack Frost" presskit.
[On portraying different
types of emotions.] "I try to think of different things.
Like I try to think of like... When you're really really happy
you think of a joke somebody told you. When I feel sad I think
when my Grandma died... um, things like that."
-- From the "Jack Frost" websiite interview.
[On remembering his
grandmother's death while acting.] "Well, the thing is, I
have more...The good memories of my Grandma, they outdo, I guess,
the bad memory of her dying. But I try to remember what it was
like when she died. It's hard because you get upset."
-- From the "Jack Frost" website interview.
[On audition expectations.]
"The thing is, alot of times when I think 'Yeah, I got
that!' that I think I'll get that, I don't get it. But when I
think, 'Oh, there's no way that I'll ever get that!', I get it.
So that's a good sign I guess, if that's how you want to
think!"
-- From the "Jack Frost" website interview.
[On what he liked about
'JF'] "I liked the whole thing where his dad gets to have a
second chance. That, you know, it would be great if all parents
got that...if all parents who didn't do what they were capable of
doing as a parent got a second chance. So I think that that's
pretty cool."
-- From the "Jack Frost" website interview.
[On what kinds of movies he
would like or want to do.] "I don't know. I like all kinds.
I liked 'Desperate Measures.'"
-- From "A Few Words With Joseph Cross, Child Star of
Jack Frost", Crosswalk.Com
[On getting the role for
'WA'] "After the audition, I thought, 'if there is one movie
I'm not going to get, it's this one.' But then I got a call back,
and another call back. Then Night came over to my house for
dinner and I thought, 'This isn't too bad.'"
-- From "Wide Awake" presskit.
[On always being able to be
a child thanks to 'Jack Frost'.] "It's like the Brady Bunch,
how they have reruns where an actress is really small, but in
reality she's like 40. On film you never have to grow up."
-- From "'Jack Frost' breathes new life into a classic
tale", CNN.com. (Link)
[On getting the part for 'Jack Frost'.]
"I had to audition. They liked me and I liked the story, but
not at first. When they told me and my mom it was about a
walking, talking snowman, we said, "Don't call us, we'll
call you." But they told me to read the script and said it
wasn't cheesy. So we read it and it was a good script. Then they
told me Michael Keaton was in it and I had worked with him before
in 'Desperate Measures' and that was really cool."
--From "Snow business a ball for 12-year-old
star", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 14,
1998
[On learning how to play
hockey for 'Jack Frost'.] "All the kids in the movie had to
learn to play hockey. We went to hockey camp for three weeks, for
three hours a day. First it was exercises and stretches. The
second hour was skills and the third hour was scrimmage. It was
pretty wicked. (Webmaster's note: You're sounding like an
easterner again there, Joe!! :D) I wasn't [a good hockey
player] before. Forget about hockey, I hardly knew how to skate.
My technique for stopping was smashing into somebody, the wall,
or falling down."
--From "Snow business a ball for 12-year-old
star", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 14,
1998
[On what he likes about
acting in movies.] "You get to be in the movie and be a part
of making it and everybody sees you on the big screen and stuff.
You get to say I was a part of that, I helped make that."
--From "Snow business a ball for 12-year-old
star", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 14,
1998
[On what he hates about
acting in movies.] "Getting up early. I consider anything
before 8 in the morning early. On the weekends I consider
anything before noon as too early."
--From "Snow business a ball for 12-year-old
star", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 14,
1998
[On what his friends might
automatically assume about acting.] "They think I sit around
and make a lot of money. They think I make $20 million, but only
people like Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler make
that much. It's really hard work."
--From "Snow business a ball for 12-year-old
star", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 14,
1998
[On two of 46 reasons why
people should watch As the World Turns.] "It's an
entertaining show. It's been on for a while. I came on I was like
4' 11". Now I'm 5' 9"."
-- From Soapcity.com's coverage of the 2002 fan club
luncheon, which Joe attended.
Other's Quotes
"[Joe] is hip and
mature, but he's also just a normal kid who loves to play and
joke around, says Preston, who's also the mother of a little boy.
It's safe to say I've fallen in love with him. He's almost like
another son to me. To be a kid in this business and be so normal
is a testament to the Cross family."
-- "Jack Frost" Actress Kelly Preston, "In
the Cross Fire", Hollywood Reporter, Nov. 17, 1998
"We looked at an
unbelievable number of kids", recalls 'Frost' producer Mark
Canton, who worked with both Rick Schroder and Claire Danes when
they were child actors. "It's hard finding a kid who's not
precocious. You see these kid [actors] who are overly cute. This
kid has got the chops."
-- "Jack Frost" producer Mark Canton, "In the
Cross Fire", Hollywood Reporter, Nov. 17, 1998
"This kid has to
really carry the movie", adds Marci Liroff, the film's
casting director. "He has to be able to be vulnerable, smart
and intelligent. There's heavy emotion in this movie, which is
hard for a lot of boys."
-- "Jack Frost" casting director Marci Liroff,
"In the Cross Fire", Hollywood Reporter, Nov.
17, 1998
"We got lucky. He
[Joseph] was delightful. He was still at the age when he believed
in make-believe. He hadn't reached the point where young actors
tend to turn self-conscious. I had a crying scene to do in
reaction to the death of my father, his grandfather. When he saw
my tears, he asked me, 'How do you do that?' I said, 'You just
believe in what you are doing.' Later he had a scene with the
priest, and he's there with tears streaming down his face,
obviously not fake ones. When the shot was over he jumped up and
down and started cheering, 'I did it, I did it!'"
-- "Wide Awake" actress Dana DDelaney, "A 'Wide'
Range" article by Bridget Byrne
"I love him. He's so
darling, so real, down-to-earth, inquisitive and interested in
you. He's been raised so well and so smart. And he's a terrific
actor. He's great to work with. We would improv and have
emotional scenes... We shot [the shoveling snow scene in 'Jack
Frost'] over a while because there were several different shots
involved with that. He was right there with it. He's a pro."
-- "Jack Frost" Actress Kelly Preston, Entertainment
Tonight online interview.
"Joseph has become
like another son to me. He's got such heart and depth for someone
so young. He has a great sense of humor, yet he is able to pull
off the intense emotions necessary for this film."
-- "Jack Frost" Actress Kelly Preston, "Jack
Frost" presskit.
"Joseph has that same
passion that Michael and Kelly have. He totally gets the
character and really made it his own. He's also extremely mature
as an actor, but never loses his perspective on childhood."
-- "Jack Frost" director Troy Miller, "Jack
Frost" presskit.
"I always felt guilty
terrorizing him in 'Desperate Measures'; I decided that he be
recognized too," Keaton said with a laugh. After a script
read-through with Cross, "it was CLEAR he was the kid."
-- Actor Michael Keaton, "Keaton recruited his young
co-star for film he hopes might be a holiday classic", by
Mark Burger, JournalNow, December 11, 1998.
"Joshua's role is
really a demanding role for a child. It has physical comedy and
heavy drama, and just a certain innocence about him. It has an
innocence as well as a great precociousness, so you have to have
those two elements portrayed in this, all these things in this
child, so finding him [Joseph] was a scary proposition.
Essentially, I waited until we found Joshua, as opposed to a
child that could act it. There was alot of child actors who were
very adept at their craft, but there was a certain something, an
air about them, that they were acting. Since he carries the film,
who that child is decides the flavor of the film, the tone of the
film."
-- "Wide Awake" director M. Night Shyamalan,
"Crux of Hollywood" at Hollywood.Com
[Finding an actor to play
Joshua]"...was something that could have shut the film down
before we even started, if we couldn't find this kid. It wasn't
easy, because the character has to handle both comedy and drama.
He had to be an incredible actor, able to handle physical comedy
and pathos, and able to make us cry. But we found him."
--M. Night Shyamalan, "Wide Awake" presskit.
"[WA casting director]
Avy [Kaufman] called me up one day and said 'I'm not looking
anymore. This kid just walked in, and he's a dream. He's so
special he made me cry.' And when we saw him, we all
agreed."
--"Wide Awake" co-producer Cathy Konrad,
"Wide Awake" presskit.
"...I wanted to find
'That Kid'. You know, not an actor that can play that role, but
'That Kid'. That kid with that sweet innocence and, you know,
alot of questions and when he walked in the room and he started
talking, I'd be like 'There he is!'. And of course he's not
exactly him, but he's very close to 'That Kid' I saw in my head
and so it would be more about just conveying real truth on that
screen, that child. And when Joseph walked in the room I felt
like that. He started to talk and say those lines and I thought
'You know, he's kind of acting but he's not.'"
--M. Night Shyamalan, Hollywood.com interview.