Jared Leto Quotes

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist [like Alessandro Michele].

When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art.

It’s funny. I don’t like onions but I like onion rings. What’s up with that?

Nothing is quite what you expect with Gucci. I'm just happy to be a part of their adventure.

I win and succeed only 'cause I fail so much. I fail all the time. I wrote 70 songs just to have 12 good ones. For the video I shot 60 hours of footage. 60 hours! To come up with an 8 minute video. So really I only win 'cause I fail.

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'

Love isn't who you can see yourself with. It's who you can't see yourself without.

I never really expected "Hurricane" to be censored and banned around the world, but I think the good thing that came from it was that it created a dialogue, a conversation, a debate and a discussion. And that's a great thing. It brought all of us together in a unique way. And it made us look a little deeper in ourselves. I think it's a good thing.

Follow your dreams.No matter what

I understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though.

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

It was great growing up a nomad. To this day I still love hiking and back packing.

So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.

Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your reality

I really enjoy learning about other people and I'm really curious about other people.

Your heart is like glass, if it breaks, it's pretty hard to put it back together again.

It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.

I'm terminally dissatisfied. That's probably part of being an artist.

When you’re young, you don’t know that you’re poor, you just know whether or not you’re happy. And i was happy, and loved. My mom did whatever she has to do to get by, and the lesson i learned from my childhood was that it’s possible to pursue happiness, no matter where that pursuit may lead you.

I don’t think [Requiem for a Dream] is for children, but I think if you went home and looked at the video games that your kids are playing, you’d be much more shocked.

On the one hand, how many people do you need to love you before you feel OK about yourself?

I think people would be surprised by his [Alessandro Michele] humility.

I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother and I moved around a lot. We basically moved every couple of years, and I went to a lot of different schools. But creativity, for us, was always a way of life. It was never a job. Being an artist was a passion and a way of life.

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.

You say 'believe in your dreams', I say that I believe in YOU.

I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.

Live your life for anyone but yourself

I’m pretty masochistic. I kill myself for my craft – Literally

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

It's nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.

Just jump in with both feet and live your life, no matter what.

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

You know you’re really famous when there’s rumors about you being gay.

It's okay to stand on your own two feet and to be different, to be yourself.

No one has to give you permission to make music or make art.

The fragrances are really a dream about the possibilities of a life. Nonconformity, no judgement.

Learn to laugh at your problems, cause everybody else does.

I could be your worst enemy. But i would rather have friends then enemies, and i go to great length to make that the case. There’s much more reward in having friends.

Labels are for cans, not for people.

I’ve always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians.

Sometimes to find the light, you have to go through the deepest darkness.

You're weak. Be strong and it's easy.

When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used to throw parties. And a couple of times, I even worked for him and his crew, and handed out fliers, and had my super-high shoes on, and wearing silver Saran Wrap around my head or something. It's a world I was really comfortable in: a world full of individuals. I think what I like about that world - besides my own personal interests - is the individualism, the investment in the self.

I've never made money from films.

As artists, it’s our job to delve into the uncomfortable, the difficult and the challenging.

I’ve always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it’s been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you’ve given something planetary status it’s kind of mean to take it away.