Top 30 Josh Lucas Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Josh Lucas

2. “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.”

— Josh Lucas

3. “Always do something different. Always different things.”

— Josh Lucas

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

— Josh Lucas

5. “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

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

— Josh Lucas

7. “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.”

— Josh Lucas

8. “No, well, my father’s definitely not Christopher Walken.”

— Josh Lucas

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

— Josh Lucas

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

— Josh Lucas

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

— Josh Lucas

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

— Josh Lucas

13. “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

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

— Josh Lucas

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

— Josh Lucas

16. “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

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

— Josh Lucas

18. “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

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

— Josh Lucas

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

— Josh Lucas

21. “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

22. “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

23. “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.””

— Josh Lucas

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

— Josh Lucas

25. “My instincts are not comedic.”

— Josh Lucas

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

— Josh Lucas

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

— Josh Lucas

28. “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.”

— Josh Lucas

29. “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

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

— Josh Lucas

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

— Josh Lucas

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

— Josh Lucas

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

— Josh Lucas

34. “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