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. Jared Leto More Quotes by Jared Leto More Quotes From Jared Leto We never want to be a band that keeps our fans at arm’s length. This has always been about us and our fans together. We’ve been on an amazing journey with our fans already, but knowing that the best is still to come is a pretty Jared Leto knowing journey feelings My proudest moment was when I was in high school, some jackass tried to give me a wedgy. I came prepared, I went commando. It tickled. Jared Leto moments giving school There are always going to be people that are judgmental that are going to say, 'Well, he was an actor first, so he doesn't have the right to be a musician,' or, 'I know him as this, so therefore I will never accept him as that.' I can't change those people. I can only be myself. And I can only keep making art. I can only do the best that I can. I am not going to spend my life trying to silence the critics. I'm going to do what I'm passionate about and follow my dreams. Jared Leto dream people art Well, the experience for me making a film is the most profound one. I really don’t have any business watching the movie so much. Maybe I could watch it for entertainment purposes, but you have so little input and control of the final product once you’re done that I feel like I just would rather leave it alone. It kind of leaves me in a place where every film I do, I’m kind of having to reinvent and figure out how to start again fresh, and hopefully not repeat myself. Jared Leto hopefully-not profound watches When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art. Jared Leto transcendent advertising art Alessandro [Michele] has really done the impossible. He's taken this classic brand [Gucci] and really turned it completely around and taken it in a direction that was so unexpected. [Alessandro and I] met and became friends here in L.A., and then we got to know each other and he asked me to do this. It was really organic and not the way this stuff normally happens. Jared Leto done taken stuff It's okay to stand on your own two feet and to be different, to be yourself. Jared Leto being-yourself feet two Live your life for anyone but yourself Jared Leto live-your-life I'd prefer 1,000 followers, friends, and fans that actually meant something, rather than 10 million that weren't engaged. Jared Leto engaged fans followers I don't want to be some actor talking about how he wants to be a musician. It's something I'm really passionate about and I don't want to be spouting off at the mouth about something before it's out there and can speak for itself. Jared Leto mouths want talking 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. Jared Leto hippie children art I never look at myself as a closet actor wanting to make music or a closet musician wanting to act — I’m very proud to do both and I don’t put one above the other, I’m very grateful and excited by both opportunities — it’s really a unique opportunity to do both. Jared Leto grateful unique opportunity I get a terminal dissatisfaction on films. If I was bad in one scene, it's impossible to let go. And it can make or break my day. If I drank, I would probably drink a lot. Jared Leto make-or-break impossible letting-go The idea that I would ever end up on David Letterman or Jay Leno is horrifying. I am such a freak in comparison to most other twenty-five-year-old guys. I have no idea what other people are thinking. I’m not really in touch. Jared Leto years ideas thinking This is a song called 'The Kill.' But don't be scared, it's a nice song. About losing your mind. Jared Leto nice mind song Sometimes you have to fight in order to be free. Jared Leto fighting sometimes order I’ve always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians. Jared Leto politician leader artist In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she's here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream. Jared Leto girl mom inspiring The fragrances are really a dream about the possibilities of a life. Nonconformity, no judgement. Jared Leto possibility judgement dream My coolest job was when I was 12 and I was a dishwasher at the Three Pigs Bar-B-Que for $2.50 an hour. All the fleabags and stoners worked there, so that’s where I wanted to be. Jared Leto three pigs jobs
