Josh Lucas Quotes (43 Quotes)

We had our two and three hitters on three times. But, we either missed a sign or made a mental mistake and couldn't come through with a clutch hit. Those are the things we have to get better at.

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

Lucas questions Edi's readiness, but he's waging a futile argument. Shepard has unconditional love for Edi. You afraid Edi's gonna take your job ... I guarantee this thing will be a hundred percent before the next mission.

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

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

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

My instincts are not comedic.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Some of the people started asking about that, and back then I didn't know anything about it. I went and talked to Warner Bros. about it, because they're making it, and obviously I would love to do it. I think it's a great character. I like that someone could go from being bad to good and back and forth and light and dark, but also I think series director Christopher Nolan did an amazing job. And Christian Bale did an amazing job too. Christian and I did 'American Psycho' together, so it'd be like a reunion of sorts.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Always do something different. Always different things.

Knowing what it means to sometimes have a ton of money, and sometimes have no money and have to come up on-the-fly with something.

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

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

That is oftentimes the case with actors because the nomadic element of their life means, in a sense, that they are recreating themselves. I would sort of in somewhat of an ugly, schizophrenic style lie in bed the night before I would start a new school and say, 'What do I like from some guy that I was around that I want to be more like' There are elements of that in acting. I didn't realize that I was preparing for that.

The cool thing about Haskins is that he was basically colorblind. He never understood why white players couldn't play against black players and vice versa. It made no sense to him. He just wanted to find the best players he could recruit no matter who they were or where they were from, as long as they had potential. It was as simple as that to him.

He would literally come every day --I had a day off and weekends and stuff -- and pick me up early in the morning in his truck and we'd go out and do what he does every day -- which he goes out to the desert and drinks beers and tells stories.

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

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

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.

Stealth is the big playful summer roller coaster of a film, but there's a really interesting idea which is that the military, the navy is at the point where they are about to stop building airplanes that will be flown by human beings. From now on the fighter planes will be flown by computers.

About 40 years ago, it's stunning to think that the NCAA had never started an all-black team before. No one had done that before.

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.

We took a completely different slant on it than the original all the characters are totally different.