Josh Hartnett Quotes - Page 3

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

You learn so much from making mistakes, not even necessarily mistakes that I've made, a lot of the time the films just don't work out because it's a really difficult process. And sometimes there's a certain person underlining process. But I've had an opportunity to work on all different types of films and I have had a lot of opportunities to stretch myself in different ways and now is the time where I get to try and figure out out the roles that I can really play well and play them well.

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.

It's more interesting when people overcome inner turbulence, but at the same time I do like the innocent. Have you ever read The Idiot? I think Dostoyevsky created a brilliant character there. He doesn't have any self-inflicted wounds. I love that. People don't like him because he's so pure.

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

I have a pretty easy life.

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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.