Jared Leto
My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.Collection: Respect
I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.Collection: Teen
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.Collection: Experience
I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.Collection: Computers
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.Collection: Wedding
Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.Collection: Experience
He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.Collection: Strength
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.Collection: Sympathy
I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.
When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.
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 think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'
I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.
It's nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.
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.
I understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though.
I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.
Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.
It gives us a look into a world that's very much like 'Traffic' was for drugs, this movie is for gun running. Dark at times, but I think Nic Cage is an incredible person to watch and very entertaining.
It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked.
So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.
I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure.
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.
It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.
A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo.
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.
Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.Collection: Dream
I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.Collection: Insane
Love isn't who you can see yourself with. It's who you can't see yourself without.Collection: Hate
Follow no path. Make your own.Collection: Path
Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your realityCollection: Dream
Sometimes to find the light, you have to go through the deepest darkness.Collection: Light
You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.Collection: Motivational
To find yourself, you must first lose yourselfCollection: Finding Yourself
Dream big while you sleep, and even bigger when you're awake.Collection: Dream
Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.Collection: Feet
You've got one life, live it. Follow your dreams, quit your job, drop out of school, tell your boyfriend that he's lousy and walk out the door. This is your time. This is your life. You know what? Dream as big as you want to, its the cheapest thing you'll ever do.Collection: Dream
The bridge between reality and a dream is work.Collection: Dream
Try and fail, but never fail to try!Collection: Motivation
I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don't need anybody else to do it for me.Collection: Needs
Just jump in with both feet and live your life, no matter what.Collection: Feet
Impossible is possible if you put your mind into it and don't give up.Collection: Giving Up
PLEASE REMEMBER WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF DOUBT AND IT ALL SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THERE IS STILL SOME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU, ME. XOCollection: Believe
Happiness is like the weather. Sometimes it’s rainy, sometimes it’s sunny, and you gotta just go through and accept what’s there in front of you.Collection: Weather
There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.Collection: Baseball
Be the person you want to be, not the person you have to beCollection: Want
If you truly believe that your dreams will come a reality the possibilities are endlessCollection: Dream
Sometimes you fall in love with a song 'cause it's new, it's exciting and you just birthed it. Then you fall out of love sometimes. But the strongest songs always survive and you come back and you fall in love all over again.Collection: Song
Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.Collection: Regret