Jared Joseph Leto is an American actor and musician. He started his career with television appearances in the 1990s, and achieved recognition for his role as Jordan Catalano on the television series called My So-Called Life. His film debut was in How to Make an American Quilt, and he received critical praise for his performance in Prefontaine. He also is a lead singer and main songwriter for the band called Thirty Seconds to Mars, where he formed the band with his older brother.
We decided to share some quotes from this famous and talented actor and musician, Jared Leto.
Here are the top Jared Leto quotes
“I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.”
“Some people come into our lives, leave footprints in our hearts and minds and we are never the same again.”
“I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters, and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn’t a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn’t try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.”
“I understand a lot of the female needs. I’m not saying I know all of them all the time though.”
“Try and fail, but never fail to try!”
“If you are willing to walk the path of a dreamer, then anything is possibly.”
“Approval isn’t necessary. It’s nice when you get it, but it’s not going to stop us from being who we are. I mean, if I’d have listened to approval, I’d never have made it one day onstage. But to be criticized, if there’s validity, as upset as you are, you can learn from it.”
“The truth is, that I feel alone most of the time. I stopped believing in happiness, but I know that music makes me feel good.”
“I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.”
“I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there’s a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.”
“Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.”
“Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.”
“Dream big while you sleep, and even bigger when you’re awake.”
“It’s not like I’m hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I’m so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.”
“I’ve always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it’s been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you’ve given something planetary status it’s kind of mean to take it away.”
“Music is subjective to everyone’s unique experience.”
“My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.”
“I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.”
“I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don’t need anybody else to do it for me.”
“So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who were trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.”
“I was never interested in ‘Teen Beat’ like roles. I just wanted to work.”
“Be brave, follow dreams, say f*ck you to everybody and fight for what you believe in.”
“It’s nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.”
“Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They’re stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.”
“I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.”
“I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I’d never done karaoke before.”
“It’s nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.”
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