Jonathan Tucker Quotes

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!

I really love voice over work, because it lets you go crazy and have fun. You literally can go anywhere with it!

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.

I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

I have a good time when I'm acting, and bottom line, I just want to enjoy myself and be a happy person, and acting makes me happy. I enjoy it, and it's a good way to escape yourself. You just become somebody else for a little bit, and it's a lot of fun.

As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let go and be somebody else.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

The best thing as an actor, the best tool you have is your imagination. That you kind of take things that have happened, and then go and expand on them. However small it is, you use your imagination to create what that reality is. There's something kind of fun when you're not old enough to do anything, driving a car, getting into a bar, drinking, going to a party you don't belong to, something when you're young in that innocent way.

You have to have the fire in your belly. I'm having more fun now with acting than I did when I first started out, because I'm doing it just because I really enjoy it. I'm not trying to "make it" anymore. I'm not trying to be anything, you know? The biggest this and that for anybody. I'm just enjoying it.

I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

Doing something different, doing something original is always fun because there is a lot of creativity that comes with it.

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe.

I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

Playing Arnie was fun because everything I did was spontaneous.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

True singing is a different breath, about nothing.

There's was no pressure on it for me - I just went in and had fun. Whatever Jason Moore, the director, asked me to do, I did it! I ran around the room acting like a crazy guest on "Jerry Springer" and yelling at the audience. I just went for it.