Josh Lucas Quotes

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut

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

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

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

Always do something different. Always different things.

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

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

Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I was making choices that were very specific: Make a living, take care of your family, and if you can, find some movies that you can sink your teeth into.

My instincts are not comedic.

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

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

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

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.