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Josh Lucas
American
Actor
About the author
I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Love
#People
#World
#Business
#Creativity
I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Actors
I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Being
Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Time
#Work
#Day
#Travel
Always do something different. Always different things.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Comedy
#Energy
#Drama
I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Friends
#Baby
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.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
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.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Sense
#Environment
It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Time
#Work
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Living
#Funny
It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Idea
My instincts are not comedic.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Actor
#Decision
#Childhood
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Idea
#Romantic
No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Father
On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Mind
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.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Choices
So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Idea
The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Life
#Experience
I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Time
#Love
#People
#World
#Eyes
This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Death
#Fear
#Desire
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.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#People
#Being
#Understanding
Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Time
#Right
#Work
#Identity
I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#People
#Power
#Discipline
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.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Character
#Books
#Movies
#Music
I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Want
#People
#Actor
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.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Friends
#Baby
#Happiness
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,
American
Actor
#Life
#Hollywood
#Cliches
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.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#Time
#Learning
There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.
Josh Lucas,
American
Actor
#People
#World