Quotes from Josh Hartnett

My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.

I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.

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.

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.

I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.

I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.

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!

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.

I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

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

I don't love LA. I love New York and Minneapolis, so if I have a choice I'll stay in those places.

I think guys understand love a little better than girls.

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.

My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.

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!

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.