Top 100 Ashton Kutcher Quotes

I’ve constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

Be careful with the man jewelry. A little goes a long way.

People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching – in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is watching.

I think that the way that Steve Jobs sought after love was to create products that people loved. And when people loved his products, in turn they – he felt like they loved him.

The goal is not to get into a relationship; the goal is to be in a relationship.

I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that’s crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody’s so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety.

When I was on the ’70s Show,’ I had that and I had ‘Punk’d’ and I had my own production company. That pretty much sealed up all my time.

Wear a belt! It’s an easy way to pull together your outfit. Just be sure to match it to your shoes.

I’ve learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I’ve learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.

When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.

What I’ve become good at is bringing things that aren’t necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don’t think I’m like that. And I’m not stupid!

Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I’m blessed with that.

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can’t control – when they write lies at least – because the laws can’t really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.

I don’t believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can’t sit still.

I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.

Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don’t necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don’t share it as much.

I can’t grow a mustache. It’s pretty sad if I attempt to.

I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.

It’s really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

I want to be like Tom Cruise from ‘The Outsiders’ and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there’s a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.

Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.

I feel like a fraud… My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

I could never be with a woman who felt like she needed to change me.

I wouldn’t say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.

I’m continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you’re uncomfortable, it means you’re growing.

I don’t read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don’t sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don’t really care what they write about me.

I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, ‘You’re a great listener.’ Haven’t heard it yet, and that’s a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I’m going to work on it.

I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You’ll never forget what it is once you’ve paid for one.

Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.

I could never be with a woman who felt like she needs to change me.

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there’s an ecosystem that exist there. But there’s also an ego system that exists there.

When you do movies, it’s you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know?

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I’m good, I don’t think I’m great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

I’ll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, ‘Wow.’ Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

I didn’t come from the worst of situations, and I didn’t come into the best of situations. But I’ve appreciated the best situations. And I’ve made the best of the worst situations. I’m lucky to be where I am.

I’m continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you’re uncomfortable, it means you’re growing.

There’s something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don’t know what you’re talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn’t normally have.

I’m happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I’m happy in Iowa, I’m happy here in California.

I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who’s meticulous about his work. And I’d love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.

I think privacy is valuable. You don’t have to share everything, and it’s healthy to occasionally hit the pause button and ask yourself if you’re oversharing. But at the end of the day, if you’re not doing anything wrong, you don’t have anything to hide.

The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people’s pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.

I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you’re making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you’re someone who doesn’t cook, you can make a meal.

The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.

Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.

I say whatever I think and whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun.

I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person. That’s my take.

I didn’t really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

There’s no sense in making life seem like it’s a struggle, because that doesn’t make anybody feel better.

I could never be with a woman who felt like she needs to change me.

One of the things about being on Twitter, for me, is mostly about just being on the pulse of what people are interested in, what people are doing and what people are looking for. I look at entertainment projects and storytelling, and I really try to think about what people want.

Whether it’s being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I’ve learned a lot.

I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.

Be careful with the man jewelry. A little goes a long way.

I would say I’m 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

I certainly don’t think I’m deserving of taking up space forever as a human. There’s a whole generation of people yet to be born that are going to be so much more evolved than I am. I don’t want to take up space. They’re going to be better equipped to make the world a better place than I am.