Josh Hartnett Quotes

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

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

I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!

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

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

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!

When I turned 18, I skipped my party to take my girlfriend on a road trip. It turned out to be an amazing birthday.

It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.

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.

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

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.

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 don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

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

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!

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

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 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.

You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!

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

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

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.

Some people have the meat-market mentality, so you've got to take your shirt off because it will bring girls into the theater. When that comes up on set, I challenge it.

I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing.

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

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'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.

I have a pretty easy life.

I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.

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

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.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

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

I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

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

I guess I will probably produce a little bit more. For me it's a career, you create as you go along and you can't worry about always being on top.

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

I think guys understand love a little better than girls.

When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.

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've had my heart broken, and it's not fun. But I'd rather have my heart broken than break someone else's heart.

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

I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and do the things I knew I could do for a while.