Top 50 Josh Peck Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It doesn’t matter what you look like really though, it is who you are that matters of course.”

— Josh Peck

2. “I know about hip-hop culture, whether it’s graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.”

— Josh Peck

3. “All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don’t have to act it as much, once you’ve done it enough.”

— Josh Peck

4. “I think as working actors, it’s like sales. You’re only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.”

— Josh Peck

5. “If you include quotes with your Instagram photos, you need to look at your life.”

— Josh Peck

6. “Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.”

— Josh Peck

7. “I was raised by a single mother.”

— Josh Peck

8. “When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That’s a universal thread, whether you’re an athlete, a dancer, an actor or a singer. It’s all about maintaining your body because that allows you to do what you do.”

— Josh Peck

9. “There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.”

— Josh Peck

10. “I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.”

— Josh Peck

11. “I think whether you’re a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you’re just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.”

— Josh Peck

12. “I’m forever in debt to Nickelodeon. It made me who I am today.”

— Josh Peck

13. “Sometimes I don’t want to go out and socialize; I just want to watch my favorite shows and comedians. But then I have to remember that it is important to participate in life if you want to portray real life on screen.”

— Josh Peck

14. “Method Man, for him to offer me the spot as the first Jewish member of the Wu Tang Clan, you know, was an honor.”

— Josh Peck

15. “Gratuitous fat jokes always hurt, no matter what.”

— Josh Peck

16. “I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.”

— Josh Peck

17. “I don’t know, being able to work with Meth was pretty damn cool, but even that day, John, the director, gave me one of the best notes I’ve ever had. I walked into the scene just completely excited. I just couldn’t believe I was going to work with Meth.”

— Josh Peck

18. “I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.”

— Josh Peck

19. “Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don’t know whether it’s that I don’t have game or just don’t feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.”

— Josh Peck

20. “My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley – nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he’s so good as an artist.”

— Josh Peck

21. “I love the phrase, ‘Somebody’s going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.’ I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope.”

— Josh Peck

22. “To me, there’s nothing greater than making people laugh.”

— Josh Peck

23. “Acting’s not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.”

— Josh Peck

24. “I need to gain a lot more experience. I think so much of being a director, other than the technical aspect and the artistry of it, is the confidence that you are, I think in many ways, you’re the captain of the ship.”

— Josh Peck

25. “I do hang out with girls, I do relax. But I am a hermit sometimes and get a bit too introverted, too ‘Jean-Paul Sartre’ and intellectual in my head. And it’s like a Kafka novel in there, things get nuts. Then I have to remind myself to get out and I will go and play ice hockey with my friends.”

— Josh Peck

26. “I don’t really understand why I should be a role model but I know that children do look up to me, so it is my responsibility to motivate people and be inspiring. I hope that I can do that for kids.”

— Josh Peck

27. “Anytime where you’re challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.”

— Josh Peck

28. “You can bring truth to anything, whether it’s a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

— Josh Peck

29. “With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, ’cause you’re going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous parts. Normally, if you’re not an actor or some crazy artist, you don’t feel the need to run around in those areas. You keep them separate because it’s painful.”

— Josh Peck

30. “Every time you sort of let go of the bar, you knew someone was there to catch you, and vice versa. And, I mean, come on. It’s Method Man. It’s been a dream to meet him forever.”

— Josh Peck

31. “I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.”

— Josh Peck

32. “Inherently, making a movie is tough because there’s so much anticipation when it happens – even if everything goes well.”

— Josh Peck

33. “I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.”

— Josh Peck

34. “I play a lot of basketball.”

— Josh Peck

35. “The best notes are action-based and less, I don’t know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we’re too much in our heads anyway.”

— Josh Peck

36. “In life, I’d much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.”

— Josh Peck

37. “When you’re an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.”

— Josh Peck

38. “Just to be part of a process where you hit no professional speed bumps and you’re just sort of going on and on. I’m surrounded by these people that are all so collaborative and all bring things of their own to the process. For them to be alive in the scenes so you don’t have to worry.”

— Josh Peck

39. “Once you stop caring, that’s when things will start happening, you just have to not care.”

— Josh Peck

40. “There are no experts of the future.”

— Josh Peck

41. “I would love to start directing. I just hope to find the right thing and, if I was afforded the opportunity, I think it would be something great. It would be really hard, but I think it would be a great privilege.”

— Josh Peck

42. “Let me ask you this, what are you willing to let go that stands between you and happiness? The obvious stuff is easy, that anger you’ve been holding on to, that resentment. But what about the things you think are assets? That relationship you think you can’t live without, that job you think defines you, can you let go of that? Because, if you’re really serious about getting happy, you might be forced to let it all go, to know you can be okay without it.”

— Josh Peck

43. “It was like I’d spent my entire life trying to reason with a peanut allergy.”

— Josh Peck

44. “I’ve thought about him a lot throughout my life. Like pain for a phantom limb, absent fathers have a really cute way of invading your thoughts. Father’s Day? Not my favorite. Even those sneaky questions at the doctor’s office. Father’s health history? Um, bad at commitment but with a formidable libido?”

— Josh Peck

45. “Anger is about the quiet, seething judgement of everyone and everything. You become the self-appointed arbiter of all that is right and wrong in the world and if people would only act the way you thought they should, life would be infinitely better.”

— Josh Peck

46. “So congratulations, you get to feel the full spectrum of human emotions life has to offer, and if you’ve done the work, if you’ve participated in life and not run from it, then you’re equipped to do it.”

— Josh Peck

47. “Too much sunshine brings a desert.”

— Josh Peck

48. “You are ethe fish you’re trying to catch, you are the love of your life, you’re everything you’ve been searching for.”

— Josh Peck

49. “You’ll probably get everything you ever wanted. It just won’t be in the way you expected.” He paused a moment and then added, “Actually, you’ll probably get what you wanted, but by then you won’t want it anymore.”

— Josh Peck

50. “I think twice about everything at a minimum and three or four times just for good measure.”

— Josh Peck