Josh Hartnett Quotes

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.

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.

I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading poetry and making sweet love to their victims, you know, it's not really all that scary.

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!

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 am an insomniac.

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

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

My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.

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

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

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!

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 not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I'm too flirtatious with people I'm trying not to flirt with! What I am good at is making people feel uncomfortable. I don't want to but it always ends up happening!

Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

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

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 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.

We all want somebody to come in and save the day and change our lives for the better.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

I have a pretty easy life.

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

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