Josh Peck Quotes

I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'

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

I was raised by a single mother.

I play a lot of basketball.

To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

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

Gratuitous fat jokes always hurt, no matter what.

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

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.

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

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

I don't really understand why I should be a role model but I know that children do look up to me, so it is my responsibility to motivate people and be inspiring. I hope that I can do that for kids.

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.

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 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.

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

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

There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.

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

You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.

Every time you sort of let go of the bar, you knew someone was there to catch you, and vice versa. And, I mean, come on. It's Method Man. It's been a dream to meet him forever.

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.

The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.

Some people won, some people lost [the Grammys] but Taylor Swift gets to wake up as Taylor Swift so she's winning.

I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.

Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.

I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.

It doesn't matter what you look like really though, it is who you are that matters of course.