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

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

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.

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'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'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.

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.

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.

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.

Always do something different. Always different things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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