Josh Hartnett Quotes

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

I think the fact that we allow guns in our country is the main problem with school shootings.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

Honestly, I guess if you looked at my CV, I've been doing independent movies since I started. I think that I kind of took a few steps back from Hollywood as soon as it all started to come my way because I wasn't quite ready for the attention.

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

We made 16 episodes of Cracker and I loved doing the show, but unfortunately no one was watching us.

You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

I'm looking forward to finding someone in life that I can be truly happy with and relate to on all levels - someone I can bounce my stuff off. Right now, though, I'm not searching for that. But I still like knowing it will be out there sometime later.

My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!

Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.

I do a lot of weird movies that maybe you don't like and I experiment a lot but maybe I do appreciate the process and I think my greatest joy in this business is that I have had the ability to screw up in a lot of really interesting films!

My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.

I just think of interesting roles to play. I guess that I have matured, I guess growing up and becoming a man, your taste in characters changes and I think I have become more interested in active characters as I have become less contemplative in my personal life. Things have become a little bit more interesting in the doing these days and less interesting in the thinking about the doing.

I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.

I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.

I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.

I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.

It's a pretty scary time. So many emotions come up and you don't really have the wisdom to make the right choices. You can really screw yourself in adolescence.

I don't think I really understand girls now.

I think that just your tastes change as you get older and I think they'll continue to change.

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to be new and have some real artistic integrity.

I don't love LA. I love New York and Minneapolis, so if I have a choice I'll stay in those places.

If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.

I had a good time shooting in New Zealand. I almost bought a home there while I was there, because I loved it so much.

I wouldn't do anything if I didn't have something I was working for.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was pus and blood all over the place. That was enough for me.

I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.

If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.

Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.

If a girl doesn't have a sense of humor, then what would you have to talk about?

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.

I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.

I spent my entire first pay cheque from Cracker, a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

You don't stay the hottest guy forever unless you're, um, Dionysus.