Josh Peck Quotes - Page 2

When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That's a universal thread, whether you're an athlete, a dancer, an actor or a singer. It's all about maintaining your body because that allows you to do what you do.

I would love to start directing. I just hope to find the right thing and, if I was afforded the opportunity, I think it would be something great. It would be really hard, but I think it would be a great privilege.

Sometimes I don't want to go out and socialize; I just want to watch my favorite shows and comedians. But then I have to remember that it is important to participate in life if you want to portray real life on screen.

I love the phrase, 'Somebody's going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.' I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope.

Just to be part of a process where you hit no professional speed bumps and you're just sort of going on and on. I'm surrounded by these people that are all so collaborative and all bring things of their own to the process. For them to be alive in the scenes so you don't have to worry.

Method Man, for him to offer me the spot as the first Jewish member of the Wu Tang Clan, you know, was an honor.

I was raised by a single mother.

I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

Gratuitous fat jokes always hurt, no matter what.

If you include quotes with your Instagram photos, you need to look at your life.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

I'm forever in debt to Nickelodeon. It made me who I am today.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.

With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous parts. Normally, if you're not an actor or some crazy artist, you don't feel the need to run around in those areas. You keep them separate because it's painful.