F. L. Lucas Quotes

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think

After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.

Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.

Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

Hard work always wins in the end.

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

I still feel like a little boy on the set, watching the movie magic being made.

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

I don't really like to watch myself.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

I never know when I'll find myself jumping out of a helicopter or something. It's like we're making a new action movie every week, which is pretty thrilling.

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking. My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

Math is the language of the universe.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

What fun is life without a bit of showing off?

My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.

Havok ended a chapter of my life and I get to start a new one with MacGyver.

People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don't necessarily understand.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.

Education is the single most important job of the human race.

. . . don't rewrite unless you know what you're trying to do.