Joshua Jackson attended GQ's Gentlemen's Ball in New York City Wednesday, Oct. 22, and enumerated some qualities that a true gentleman should possess.

"Chivalry is part of being a gentleman," the 36-year-old Canadian-American actor told Us Weekly at the event, "but I don't think actually being composed at all times is gentlemanly."

"Sometimes you need to be outraged by things, and I think that's part of being a man," explained Jackson who is best known for his role as Pacey Witter on WB's teen drama "Dawson's Creek." "There are certain thing you shouldn't stand by and witness. Lots of things make me lose my cool, so maybe I'm rationalizing, but I don't feel that a quiet forbearance is gentlemanly."

In addition, Jackson said that a true gentleman should not ever allow his date to grab the bill. "[You] can't do that," he said. "You should always pay the bill."

When asked about the last gentlemanly thing he did for his girlfriend Diane Kruger, Jackson -  who shares residences with the German actress in Paris and Vancouver - replied, "Well, I am flying to Paris tomorrow to go see her for the weekend. That's pretty nice, if I do say so myself."

Jackson has been in a relationship with the 38-year-old "Inglourious Basterds" star since 2006, SFGate reported. But why are they not married yet?

"We're not religious," Jackson told Glamour in a recent interview. "I don't feel any more or less committed to Diane for not having stood in front of a priest and had a giant party. We're both children of divorce, so it's hard for me to take marriage at face value as the thing that shows you've grown up and are committed to another person. But it may change at some point. We may get married."

In a 2011 interview with Glamour, Kruger shared the same sentiment. "I was married very young [to French actor and director Guillaume Canet]. We were together seven years," she said. "Without sounding pessimistic, I learned that I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay. A guy friend of mine said, and it made a lot of sense, that people should get married at the end of the road, not the beginning."