Josh Hutcherson Quotes

I think I get credit for my timing because most of the time, I really have no idea where I'm going with it.

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.

I research every part thoroughly. I talk it out with my actor friends, but then I throw it all away when I get to the set. You have to be spontaneous.

I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

I'm just sort of making it up as I go along.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you're acting. You have to be in the moment and dare to fly. Words can't be on your mind.

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.

The best actors just stay in the moment, and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.

Sometimes you have to trust your guts and your instinct and improvise a little.

It's TV: you just have to jump in and just do it. You don't have time to think about it. You don't have time to write a history, which makes it even better. I go with first instincts.

I'm a guy who likes to make it up as he goes along.

Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.