Justin Timberlake Quotes

The Internet is a really strange place to be.

A gentleman can never have too many bow ties.

The Holy Land... What an experience. I will never forget this day.

Every time you do a project, you learn something new.

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

I'm not a comedian so I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but I think with a lot of comedy the impetus behind it is: I've been rejected so many times and I'm bitter and now I'm going to talk about it.

I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?

If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.

We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.

All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper ... who you are. That's what being an artist is all about. And when it gets done, you don't look back at it and say, Oh, I could have done that better.

There's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars.

You mean, like a book?

I believe in things I can count on, like beer and ESPN and my grandmother's pecan pie.

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

Your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

I would never do anything just for spite.

Sexy, to me, is the way you carry what you have. I have a big nose, but I rock it.

Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.

We want to evolve; like the Stones.

I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.

The Grammys used me for ratings. And they were up 18 percent!

Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.

Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.

I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me.

In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.

Resolutions are just like rules. They're just made to be broken.

If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

If you can answer the question of why you’re doing it, it’s the right thing to do.

I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art...I was an outcast in a lot of ways...but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what's going to make you sexy as an adult.

England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.

I have OCD mixed with ADD, you try living with that. Its complicated.

You're not meant to do what's easy, you're meant to challenge yourself.

I know what it takes to put on a good show for the fans.

If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That's what I was always told as a kid, and It's worked for me so far!

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.

Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad.

I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.

I admire this town a lot. They take care of their own. There's not a lot of places in the world, much less America, that do that. It's just a great place.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the melody than it wasn't worth remembering. So it's my way to test myself in the studio. When I was a kid I could sing pretty well so melody always made a lot of sense to me.

The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.

Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.

It's not a bad Thing to fall in Love.

It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.