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.

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.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.