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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Always do something different. Always different things.

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.

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

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

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 actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

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.

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 love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

My instincts are not comedic.

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.

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

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

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

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

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

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.

Cotton is my life.

Debate is almost non existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Be very careful of who you share your problem with remember that not every friend that smile at you is your best friend.

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.

Life begins at forty.

Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.

The last remaining thing that must be communicated to the next generation is an aging figure that still continues to change.