Top 35 Josh Hartnett Quotes

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My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob

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!
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Life isn’t what it’s like in the movies.
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I am an insomniac.
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I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn’t come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.
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I don’t love L.A. I love New York and Minneapolis, so if I have a choice I’ll stay in those places.
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My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.
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You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You’re doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have a pretty easy life.
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If I was painting or writing, I wouldn’t veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.
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Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
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My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil’ Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.
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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.
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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.
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I’m not all that demanding, I don’t think. My family might think otherwise.
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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.
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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.
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We all want somebody to come in and save the day and change our lives for the better.
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If everything is going well in my life then I start to

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.
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I’m not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.
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I’m very ‘spur of the moment’. I’m always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.
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I’m a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.
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