Josh Lucas Quotes

Always do something different. Always different things.

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.

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

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.

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’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 instincts are not comedic.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.