Josh Lucas Quotes

When the work you're doing every single day is so directly about who you are as an individual and who you are as a person, it can be both exhausting and empowering in different moments.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

When you're younger, it's hard because you're finding your identity, and then for 12 hours out of the day, you have to be a different person. So that's a tricky phase - as far as figuring who you are out and then figuring out the people that you're working with.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else's skin for a while, but then you can shrug it off - you have to find your own voice, if you want to keep doing it. That became a really conscious thing for me.

I am who I am: I have my life experiences and my professional experiences.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

I just don't spend maybe enough time figuring out my place. Maybe I do in the world, but not so much in Hollywood.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

When I started working with Maryse is when I really felt like people can start to see what I stand for and who I am.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

I know what my identity is.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

When we're growing up and being teenagers, oftentimes you try so hard to define yourself. You try to create an image of yourself because you don't really know who you are yet. And that can be kind of limiting because you forget that there are actually so many different sides of identity. And it's important to recognize that everyone is completely different.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with patches on the elbows, but now I'm old and I do. I grew into that word. I think at heart, all this time, I've been a diarist. I'm not ashamed of it.

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.