Jared Leto Quotes

High school is a dark place; I hung out with ‘freaks.’

The bridge between reality and a dream is work.

Follow no path. Make your own.

I just think it's really important to be yourself and not trying to be something you're not.

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.

All those reports that I sleep in my closet. I don’t know how people get that. People are so obsessed with what you do at home.

No, I don’t wear contacts, and contrary to what some people have said, I do not have a glass eye.

There are always going to be people that are judgmental that are going to say, 'Well, he was an actor first, so he doesn't have the right to be a musician,' or, 'I know him as this, so therefore I will never accept him as that.' I can't change those people. I can only be myself. And I can only keep making art. I can only do the best that I can. I am not going to spend my life trying to silence the critics. I'm going to do what I'm passionate about and follow my dreams.

If I wasn’t making music I would probably be in the woods with a big deer….Talking to myself.

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

The purpose of life is to live your dreams, you should never smother your wishes.

I never really wore Gucci. I never did.

I think when Tom Ford was there I borrowed a Gucci tux one time, and they were very nice and he was very kind.

I don't want to be some actor talking about how he wants to be a musician. It's something I'm really passionate about and I don't want to be spouting off at the mouth about something before it's out there and can speak for itself.

If I saw a man and I was attracted… I would follow through with it.

Alessandro [Michele] has really done the impossible. He's taken this classic brand [Gucci] and really turned it completely around and taken it in a direction that was so unexpected. [Alessandro and I] met and became friends here in L.A., and then we got to know each other and he asked me to do this. It was really organic and not the way this stuff normally happens.

Dream big while you sleep, and even bigger when you're awake.

I mean, if I'm going to the Oscars or something, yes, there are people that are contributing and I'll tell them what I don't like or whatever. I know what I don't like.

One memory I have is there were a lot of dogs at this one place and my brother got in a horrific fight with a dog and the dog bit his toe off. They became fast friends after that. He lost a toe and gained a friend.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating vegetarian/vegan and taking care of myself. That probably helps the preservation process.

If you truly believe that your dreams will come a reality the possibilities are endless

Try and fail, but never fail to try!

I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure.

Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed.

Don't ask for anyone's permission to follow your dreams

I hate shopping at stores, online, anywhere.

As we breathe and live, have a conversation, and you look in someone's eyes, and you see a sunset or have an argument or read a book or see a painting or whatever you do, it influences you. And as you live your art, it changes and grows just like you and your soul or whatever you want to call it. For me, it's never-ending, I call it "the organizer of chaos." That's what I do with this and I present it in a way that I dream. So basically, I'm just sharing my dreams with all of you.

I will wear the same thing for three years straight unless somebody, like, forces me not to. It's like, hey, I got this Gucci sweater.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

Well, girls love Justin Bieber... But real women have Letogasms

This is an industry [high fashion] that has an abundance of over-confidence. I don't think anyone would dispute that, and I'm not trying to pick on anybody, but that's just a fact, right? And sometimes that's fun.

I Lived on the street when i was a kid, i wasn’t even at school, so i had a whole different set of experiences for those formative years. I was gone… i was in a very precarious place when i was younger.

I never think people are cheeering for us. In fact, i don’t really hear them at all.

When I was a kid I was the king of mullets. If you’re wearing a rock T-shirt and you’re a fan of Rush – one of the greatest bands in the universe – you’ve got to have a mullet.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

I don’t like doing interviews. I’m not pretending to be some super neurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken.

PLEASE REMEMBER WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF DOUBT AND IT ALL SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THERE IS STILL SOME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU, ME. XO

I like Fashion but Fashion doesn't really like me, obviously.

I understand that coffee and cigarettes are cool, fashionable and all that. But agree the tea with cookies still taste better.

This is a song called 'The Kill.' But don't be scared, it's a nice song. About losing your mind.

I live by the rule that you should follow your dreams…no matter what you do, you should follow your dreams

Don't ever be scared to dream because everything is possible, no matter how bizarre. I was and still am a dreamer and that's what made me become the person I am today

I kind of follow that when I get dressed. I think if it's comfortable and it's cozy and it kind of makes you feel good, then those are good reasons to wear something.

You know it's a perverted crowd when a guy is screaming at you to take your shirt off.

I don't really care what people say. If I'm wearing, like, a tie-dye onesie and I'm in the middle of the desert, I'm not doing it for fashion points; I'm doing it because it's fun or it makes me feel good.

I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.

Pray to your God, open your heart. Whatever you do, don't be afraid of the dark.