Quotes from Jonathan Tucker

I can tell you the actor who I admire the most. Billy Crudup. Do you know who he is? He's awesome.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow.

Whether you're doing Shakespeare or Disney, good work is good work.

You have to defend your character. That's your job, if they're hiring you. That doesn't mean you can't collaborate, but you do have to make some big, bold choices. We do that in real life, too.

I'm not a horror guy, it's not my thing, but I respect it a lot. I know how hard it is to make, especially to make good.

I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds.

If people are talking about my weight cut all the time and are telling me how skinny I like, you have to respect the audience. You also have to respect all of the fighters who do this.

I try not to be judgmental. I meditate twice a day. I get some sort of physical exercise. I infuse my life with love. I love what I do, the job.

I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.

I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really well like in 'The Ruins', it pays homage to some of the stuff I really love in the '70s and incurs some of that energy the fanbase really wants to see.

I'm trying to be really synced. It goes back to the idea that, ultimately, the reward is the work.

I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.