Josh Hartnett quotes - page 2

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

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

Josh Hartnett

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.

Josh Hartnett

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

Josh Hartnett

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.

Josh Hartnett

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

Josh Hartnett

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

Josh Hartnett

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.

Josh Hartnett

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.

Josh Hartnett

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

Josh Hartnett

Life isn't what it's like in the movies. (Josh Hartnett)

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!

Josh Hartnett

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

Josh Hartnett

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.

Josh Hartnett

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

Josh Hartnett

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.

Josh Hartnett

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.

Josh Hartnett

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.

Josh Hartnett

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.

Josh Hartnett

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.

Josh Hartnett

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

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

Josh Hartnett

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.

Josh Hartnett

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.

Josh Hartnett

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

Josh Hartnett

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