Josh Lucas

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

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

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

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

“My instincts are not comedic.”

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

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

“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 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.”

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

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

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