Top 48 Quotes & Sayings by Josh Lucas

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Josh Lucas.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Josh Lucas

Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in various films, including American Psycho (2000), You Can Count on Me (2000), The Deep End (2001), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Hulk (2003), An Unfinished Life (2005), Glory Road (2006), Poseidon (2006), Life as We Know It (2010), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Red Dog (2011), J. Edgar (2011), The Mend (2014), Breakthrough (2019), Ford v Ferrari (2019), and The Forever Purge (2021). He has also appeared in television series such as The Firm (2012), The Mysteries of Laura (2014–2016), and Yellowstone (2018–2019).

Always do something different. Always different things.
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. — © Josh Lucas
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.
I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.
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 had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.
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.
My instincts are not comedic.
I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.
I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas.
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South. — © Josh Lucas
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.
No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.
This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.
The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far.
It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.
My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.
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.
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.
So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea.
I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.
On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.
I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.
I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.
I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.
I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
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.
There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.
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.
Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting. — © Josh Lucas
Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.
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 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."
My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think
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 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.
Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South
I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas
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 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 — © Josh Lucas
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
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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