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

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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