Jonathan Tucker Quotations

The fact that no traces of agent have yet been found and that other chemicals that one would not expect in such a facility have been found do raise doubts about the conclusiveness of the analysis.

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.

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

Regardless of what people say, this is very difficult to do, to inflict mass casualties with chemical or biological weapons. One really needs large quantities.

Terrorists are opportunistic. They apparently figured it would produce some toxic mess that would do some harm.

Most of the inspectors, even though they have technical skills, are not experienced in conducting inspections, and they'll be on a very steep learning curve.

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

which could pose privacy concerns for many people.

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

We should improve our intelligence about what terrorists are doing in this area, but we shouldn't panic. I think the threat is quite small.

There is a circumstantial evidence that Iraq, North Korea and Russia have undeclared stocks of smallpox, ... Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox.

Even a Ph.D. microbiologist doesn't know the dark arts of putting microbes into weapons.

The State Department is stepping back and the intelligence community is reasserting itself.

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

People can be treated with widely available antibiotics, ... If they (people who have been exposed) are treated within 24 hours, they are almost assured to be cured. After that period, it can be more difficult.

A country's intent is the key in determining whether research is for an offensive or defensive purpose. It's hard to judge the intent of others, and the classified nature of the program could provoke our enemies and lead to an arms race.

It's very difficult to guess a biological weapons threat because of the huge number of genetic variations possible.

They will have sophisticated detection devices -- for example, for biological weapons that can take samples and analyze them rapidly to determine their identity, whether Iraq, for example is producing anthrax at a vaccine plant.

They will have more sophisticated satellite surveillance, including commercial satellite systems that are less sensitive. They will, perhaps, have airborne aerial surveillance, such as helicopters or even the Predator-type unmanned aerial vehicles,

These weapons were extraordinarily potent. Some of them were actually engineered, genetically, to become more lethal than the strains in nature,

This island is definitely a potential time bomb, because the shrinking of the sea and the likely emergence within a few years of a land bridge to the mainland and the possibility that insects and rodents, carrying deadly diseases, could cross over and infect the local population.

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

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.

How are we to know which ones an adversary would be likely to pursue?

I really realized how much happier I am when I'm doing projects that I'm chosen to do, and on the flip side, how much unhappier I am on projects that make me feel uncomfortable.

You think about acting kind of as an iceberg where you've got that 5% that you see... but in order to have that 5%... you have to have another 95%.

My wife calls me grumpy cat. I'm normally a very pleasant person to be around.

My whole day revolves around food. If you think you've won the day, only because you haven't eaten over 1,000 calories, you know that things are off-kilter. That's not a healthy way to be thinking.

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.

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 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 started a nonprofit called The Pegasus Fund, and we take top-performing students from underserved communities, and we commit to sending them for three summers to a nonacademic, holistic summer camp as a means to help them acclimate socially, geographically, spiritually to pilot secondary schools that they hope to attend.

You have to eat, all day, and you have to have the right fuel to get you through different physical and mental obstacles that fighters have to get through. Just dealing with the diet alone becomes an all-encompassing, fully immersive experience. And then, there's the physical side of it, having to put your body through everything required to make you look like a fighter.

I infuse my life with love. I love what I do, the job.

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

The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.

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

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.

Mother Nature is a pretty good bioterrorist.