Quotes by Josh Radnor

About Josh Radnor:

Joshua Thomas "Josh" Radnor is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying Ted Mosby on the popular Emmy Award-winning CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. He made his writing and directorial debut with the 2010 comedy drama film Happythankyoumoreplease, for which he won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. In 2012, he wrote, directed and starred in his second film, Liberal Arts, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. In 2014 he starred as Isaac in the Broadway play Disgraced, which earned a Tony Award for Best Play nomination. Radnor now is working on a show called Mercy Street PBS, which he is currently filming.
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I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses.

Josh Radnor

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

Josh Radnor

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

Josh Radnor

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.

Josh Radnor

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

Josh Radnor

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

Josh Radnor

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

Josh Radnor

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

Josh Radnor

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.

Josh Radnor

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

Josh Radnor

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

Josh Radnor

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

Josh Radnor

Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one.

Josh Radnor

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.

Josh Radnor

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

Josh Radnor

Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

Josh Radnor

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

Josh Radnor

If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone's thing.

Josh Radnor

I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sou...

Josh Radnor

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

Josh Radnor

The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

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Author Bio

  • NameJosh Radnor
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • BornJuly 29, 1974
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Screenwriter; Film Director; Voice Actor