Quotes By Josh Lucas

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.

I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far.

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

Always do something different. Always different things.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

My instincts are not comedic.