Best 31 quotes of Josh Lucas on MyQuotes

Always do something different. Always different things.

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.

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

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

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.

I know for myself my big, long friendships they don't have the same problems any more, but they also-when you get together you often times just have a drink and watch football together. You're not really talking about everything so much the same way. You just need to be around each other, and yet you can look at each other and so much is said just between those minutiae- it's totally subtle is really what it is. I felt like that, you know, a life that's been so totally dramatic then becomes beauty in the fact that it's just so small.

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

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

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

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

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 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

I tried something when my career was really struggling: reaching out to people, to filmmakers I wanted to work with. I genuinely wrote a letter to Clint Eastwood saying, "Hey man, I'm a fan and I would be an extra in your movie.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

My instincts are not comedic.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something.

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.