Josh Hartnett
American actor and producer (born 1978)
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- "Josh is what you'd call a bad boy, but not just your regular one. He appeals to the girls so much because when you're with him you know its dangerous, but he makes you feel safe." - Kirsten Dunst
- You're only as good as the people you're working with.
- I don't know how to act ; I only know how to react.
- 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!
- I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.
- My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!
- We made 16 episodes of Cracker and I loved doing the show, but unfortunately no one was watching us.
- Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
- I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.
- 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!
- You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do. Because eventually I'm going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!
- 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. The fact that so much topography is jammed into such a small area - it's like everything in the United States, basically, in a country the size of southern California. And there are so few people. It feels like open landscape. Natural. But it is still an 18-hour flight from here. That was kind of the biggest deterrent.
- Shooting in Hong Kong was nice. But it wasn't all that different from shooting in the U.S. or shooting in Europe. But shooting in the Philippines was. We shot for a bit in a place called Diwalwal, outside Davao in Mindanao. And it was about a five-hour car ride from the nearest airport to the foot of the mountain where this town was. We went up to the mountain, and they had never seen white people in person before. It was a really interesting dynamic. They would follow us around. There were 43,000 people in the town, and there would be a couple of thousand following us around everywhere. People were very nice, very sweet. But there were some rebels around the area who kidnap for money, so we had to have the Philippine army with us. (On filming I Come With the Rain)
- Life isn't what it's like in the movies.
- Usually, when I meet a really pretty girl, right off the bat I start to feel pretty insecure.
- "I try my hardest not to have any plans. It drives the people in my life crazy. But I try to spend the majority of my time back home".
- I'm trying to choose scripts by character. I'm not so worried about creating a career. I want to create good roles, because. I want to be the best actor I can be.
- That whole idea of American film being different from European film is nonsense. It all depends on what kind of American film you're looking at. There's a giant stretch of American films being made. Plus there are different types of French movies. You know, people would say that Luc Besson's movies are American ... so you go, 'Well, he's French'. Or that Wicker Park is an American film, but (the director) Paul McGuigan's Scottish, so ... where are we talking about here? Is it all about where the money comes from, 'cos the money for this one comes from Europe. It can't be that. Is it the star? Then where do you put Russell Crowe? For me film is film and it doesn't have to do with borders or any of that sort of thing.
- 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.
- On moving out of L.A.: "I didn't want to get sucked up in the madness. Flitting around from club to club and girl to girl is no way to live."