Josh Charles Quotes

You can't be serious all the time. You got to mix it up.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

I've had to learn that not everything is so serious.

Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose.

Maybe I am conservative, but I like to have a little fun, too.

I'm very competitive, but I know when not to be competitive. I know how to have fun, but I know when it's time to get serious. That makes things a lot easier.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

I like to flip flop, but making your days work to find a laugh is a really good way to spend a day. I appreciate it more going away and then coming back to it.

Inevitably, when directors work with me on a set, they say, 'This isn't what I was expecting. I thought you were going to be very serious.' But I like to stay loose and have a good time and not take myself too seriously. I think, otherwise, you get in your own way.

I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.

I can be serious, but there's got to be a lighter side.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

I know what I like and what I want, and I can sit and enjoy every 10 minutes that go by. And truly enjoy it.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.

I try to acknowledge both the sacred and the silly in my work. That goes for the live show as well. If I find myself in my head or dwelling in seriousness, I think of my friends back home and how they'd be laughing at me.

Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.

I've never had a plan - it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.