Top 45 Justin Hartley Quotes

I’ve certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous – wonderful people – but they’re high rollers with tons of money.

I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world. I have fans that come from superhero world, which are a whole different section of fans. They’re so cool. When people are fanatical about something, it’s contagious.

I try to look clean, but I like a balance between put-together and comfortable.

Anytime you go through a divorce, you’re completely lost. Whether you want to admit it or not, or whether you know it or not, you’re completely lost.

I think any time you have a show that, after you watch it, it sort of sits with you for a while, and you take pause and you talk about it, yeah, it affects your life.

I’m no Zac Efron.

I have a wonderful wife who loves me, who’s fantastic, who’s just the thrill of my life – intriguing and mind-blowing.

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you’re wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.

I was the worst actor, but here’s the cool thing about it: I had no idea.

Every time you turn on the TV, you see some kind of heartbreaking story.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I’ve always liked them a lot – they seem to fit me well.

I’ve been lucky. I’ve never really had a job that I did that I didn’t like.

Had more confidence than I probably should have in high school. But I do remember feeling like I wish I could physically mature a little faster, fill out. In college it started to happen a little bit more, and my confidence started to grow – then I got out to L.A., and that got squashed immediately.

Every job you have, there are days that are more difficult than others. I worked on a daytime soap opera, where the volume at which you’re producing this medium is incredible.

I don’t know if I have a specific style icon.

I channel a lot of my own personal relationships anytime I prep for something.

Being an actor, you go through this thing where you want to be the best, and I think, in life in general, you go through this thing where you want to be the best always, constantly.

You mess up as a dad, and you have your worst moments.

I can tell you that good people do bad things.

Any father can relate to feeling like a superhero when you put a Band-Aid on your kid.

‘Game of Thrones’ is a good one to binge-watch, except you realize at the end of every episode that you’ve been holding your breath for, like, 30 minutes, which is probably not good for your brain.

I’ve taken a lot of risks as far as turning down money to do something I guess I thought was more meaningful. But I don’t know if that’s the best piece of advice, because I’ve also struggled with money, when I could have had a little more if I’d just taken the damn job.

I mean, 15 – that is such a pivotal time in a young man’s life.

God bless Jackie Briskey for hiring me back then when I had no idea what I was doing.

I found a very comfortable style in that if I know everyone’s job around me, it’s going to make me better at my job.

I think any actor can relate to the feeling of ‘Just tag me in, coach, give me a chance.’ Athletes go through the same thing. To be quite honest, most people in any job or career probably go though that, when you want a chance to prove what you can do, or somebody is taking away a chance at something you can do.

I don’t have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It’s hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

That New York energy, when you’ve got the benefit of great weather, it really is terrific. You look up at that skyline, and the Empire State Building is literally in your eyesight – there’s nothing like that.

On a soap opera, you’ll do an episode and a half a day, and in prime time television, you’re hustling to get an episode done in eight days. That’s a little bit frustrating sometimes. But there’s also something exhilarating about it. It’s kind of like live theater in a way, where you get one crack at it.

It’s aggravating to me when you meet people that are just… you know, there’s a difference between wanting to be an actor or a writer or something creative, and just wanting to be seen.

She calls me Aquaman, which is kind of embarrassing, having your daughter call you the name of a canceled show. When she’s being a little smarty-pants, she calls me Justin.

I love acting, and so whenever I get the opportunity to act, I’m happy. I’m easy to please when it comes to that kind of stuff. I don’t know what I’d do without it.

Certainly my time on ‘Revenge’ was great; it was a different character I’d never played before.

I became interested in ‘Smallville’ when ‘Aquaman’ was not picked up and my mortgage was due. Kidding. The real reason is that it was an easy decision.

It’s all about story and character with me, and I don’t care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I’ll do my acting on a street corner.

On my last two days of ‘Young and the Restless,’ I had 120-something pages of dialogue. My last two days.

I’m always going to be looking for something artistically or whatever. I think that’s part of being driven, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I’m unhappy.

A TV show besides ‘This is Us’ that makes me cry? Not a shocker, but ‘Game of Thrones.’

It’s called ‘A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’ by Dave Eggers. It is absolutely everything the title implies. It’s the greatest book I’ve ever.

I love ‘Friends.’ I’ve seen every one probably 37,000 times, but I can watch ‘Friends’ all night. You just forget how amazing it was!

People will come up and say – and it is insulting – ‘Do you ever want to do anything else? Like some real acting? Or a real show?’ Here’s the thing: You can either get upset about that, or you can realize that that person isn’t trying to offend you. They’re literally interested, and they’re asking you a question.

I’m a firm believer in staying out of the way. When you’re on a team and the guy’s throwing a no-hitter, you don’t talk to them. You let them do their thing.

It’s interesting because I’ll be out, and someone will say, ‘I just loved you on ‘Passions’! Did you just quit acting after that?’.

Work begets work. I’ve always taken the jobs – I’ve tried to take the jobs where the story is full or the characters are full.

I know, who doesn’t want to play a superhero, right? And everyone wants to play Superman or Batman. Everyone wants to play a superhero.