Itsdifficult to make movies in this industry if youre trying to make personal films. Luckily, I have been able to come in contact, especially recently, with a lot of filmmakers and people that are on board withhiring me to play the kind of roles I want to play, so Ive been kind of lucky these days.

Josh Hartnett

I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!

Josh Hartnett

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Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.

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I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

Josh Hartnett

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I think guys understand love a little better than girls.

Josh Hartnett

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You don't stay the hottest guy forever unless you're, um, Dionysus.

Josh Hartnett

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Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

Josh Hartnett

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When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.

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I figured out the only way to get women in high school was not to care that much. Now I realize that you have to live your life and eventually they'll be attracted to you and you'll be attracted to them and it will just happen. I think. I think.

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My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

Josh Hartnett

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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!

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If a girl doesn't have a sense of humor, then what would you have to talk about?

Josh Hartnett

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It's more interesting when people overcome inner turbulence, but at the same time I do like the innocent. Have you ever read The Idiot? I think Dostoyevsky created a brilliant character there. He doesn't have any self-inflicted wounds. I love that. People don't like him because he's so pure.

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What's more vulnerable than being naked, especially when you're out in the cold on the street? I agreed to it as long as I could pick the towel, and I picked the smallest, most floral towel I could find.

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I think that just your tastes change as you get older and I think they'll continue to change.

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I just think of interesting roles to play. I guess that I have matured, I guess growing up and becoming a man, your taste in characters changes and I think I have become more interested in active characters as I have become less contemplative in my personal life. Things have become a little bit more interesting in the doing these days and less interesting in the thinking about the doing.

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It's a pretty scary time. So many emotions come up and you don't really have the wisdom to make the right choices. You can really screw yourself in adolescence.

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I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

Josh Hartnett

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I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.

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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.

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I think the fact that we allow guns in our country is the main problem with school shootings.

Josh Hartnett

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