Josh Lucas Biography

Josh Lucas was a working actor for over a decade -- which included scene-stealing performances in Alive (1993), You Can Count on Me (2000), and The Deep End (2001) -- before he shot to stardom with high-profile roles in A Beautiful Mind (2001), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), and The Hulk (2003). Born in Arkansas, Lucas moved with his family to over a dozen U.S. cities before settling in Gig Harbor, WA. There, he joined his high school's competitive acting team and went on to win the state title for dramatic interpretation in both his junior and senior years. After graduation, Lucas moved directly to California where he made guest appearances on Fox's True Colors and Parker Lewis Can't Lose, ABC's Life Goes On, and CBS' Jake and the Fatman. The actor made his feature-film debut in the Ethan Hawke vehicle Alive (1993), before appearing opposite Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry in Father Hood (1993). Lucas later joined Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies, and the infamous Ginger Lynn Allen in the cast of the video game Wing Commander II: The Heart of the Tiger. He also continued to act on the big screen in independent films -- such as True Blue (1996), Restless (1998), Drop Back Ten (1999) -- and appeared opposite Anson Mount in the Manhattan Theater Club's production of Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi. Soon enough, formidable parts as a banker in American Psycho (2000), roughneck deadbeat dad in Kenneth Lonergan's award-winning You Can Count on Me, and a doomed gay night-club owner in The Deep End put Lucas in the public eye. He went on to earn rave reviews as Russell Crowe's nemesis-turned-friend in Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind, before securing the plum roles of Reese Witherspoon's backwoods husband in Andy Tennant's Sweet Home Alabama and Bruce Banner's (Eric Bana) romantic rival in Ang Lee's much-anticipated adaptation of The Hulk. Over the coming decade, Lucas would continue to appear on screen, in movies like Stolen, Daydream Nation, Life As We Know It, and J. Edgar, as well as TV shows like The Firm. ~ Aubry Anne D'Arminio, Rovi

• 1. Jake Perry: You can have roots and wings.
  From Sweet Home Alabama. Submitted by Panos M (4 months ago)

• 1. Melanie Carmichael: And, don't even pretend like you missed me.
  2. Jake Perry: Oh, I missed you, all right. But, at this range, my aim is bound to improve.
  From Sweet Home Alabama. Submitted by Jared B (9 months ago)

• 1. Patrick Bateman: Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?
  2. David Van Patten: Ed Gein? The maitre 'd at Canal Bar?
  3. Patrick Bateman: No, serial killer, Wisconsin, the '50s.
  4. Craig McDermott: So what did he say?
  5. Patrick Bateman: 'When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part wants me to take her out, talk to her, be real nice and sweet and treat her right.'
  6. David Van Patten: And what did the other part think?
  7. Patrick Bateman: 'What her head would look like on a stick... ' [laughs]
  From American Psycho. Submitted by Grant H (11 months ago)

• 1. Hansen: Are you scared?
  2. John Forbes Nash Jr.: Terrified. Petrified. Stupefied by you.
  From A Beautiful Mind. Submitted by Michael D (13 months ago)

• 1. Jason Lair: Why did Henry send us here, Turner?
  2. Turner Lair: Spite...
  3. Jason Lair: No, he sent us here so I could forgive you. That's all my post-it said was, "Forgive him." What am I forgiving you for, Turner? Huh? What am I forgiving you for?
  4. Turner Lair: What happened here... there's no forgiveness. ...I'm, i'm not even that person anymore.
  5. Jason Lair: What happened on the stairway, Turner? Just tell me, what happened on the stairway?
  6. Turner Lair: You were not in the car.
  7. Jason Lair: What?
  8. Turner Lair: With your mother. You were never in a car accident.
  9. Jason Lair: What'd you do? Did you drop me? Is that it? You get fucked up? You get fucked up and you dropped me?
  10. Turner Lair: Fucked up? I WAS GONE!
  11. Jason Lair: Just... say it! Say it! Say it! You dropped me! Say it.
  12. Turner Lair: No... no. No! NO! Nobody dropped you! ..GET IT? ....I threw you, kid. I threw my boy.. I threw my boy.
  From Around the Bend. Submitted by Alannah D (16 months ago)

• 1. Jason Lair: You called me TENSE!
  2. Turner Lair: You called me a THIEF!
  3. Jason Lair: You WERE a thief!
  4. Turner Lair: You were tense. You still are.
  From Around the Bend. Submitted by Alannah D (16 months ago)

• 1. Jake Perry: Can I help you?
  2. Melanie Carmichael: Well, for starters, you can get your stubbon ass down here and give me a divorce.
  3. Jake Perry: You're shittin' me, right?
  4. Melanie Carmichael: I never really understood that expression, but, no, I am not *shitting* you.
  From Sweet Home Alabama. Submitted by Alyssa B (20 months ago)

• 1. Stella Kay: You know for someone whose been holding onto something for so long, you're pretty quick to let it go.
  2. Jake Perry: I can't control her, any more than I can control the weather.
  From Sweet Home Alabama. Submitted by Alyssa B (20 months ago)

• 1. Hansen: So how about it, Nash? You scared?
  2. John Forbes Nash Jr.: Terrified... mortified... petrified... stupefied... by you.
  From A Beautiful Mind. Submitted by Bharath P (2 years ago)