Quotes from Justin Timberlake

If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.

Sometimes I wake up and stretch and do 20 minutes on the treadmill, or anything to just break a sweat. And then I have the weekends where I can get out and play nine holes and maybe go to the gym.

The hardest part about making movies is staying the exact same weight every day and looking the same.

I think I have to laugh about the fact that I grew up in public. All these weird stages in my teenage years are documented. Why did no one tell me how terrible some of those outfits were?

'Friends With Benefits': it feels like a two-hander to me, but it is a big movie, and this is the first straightforward male I've been able to play. I would describe my character in 'The Social Network' as a kind of sociopath. I would describe my character in 'Bad Teacher' as... just a weirdo. But this is a male's male.

I don't see myself as someone who's ever going to be defined by one moment. It's on to the next.

Golf is me and buddies out having a good time, but most of all, golf is about me and my dad. Anytime I think of golf, I think about my dad. He taught me how to hit a golf ball, and he got me playing.

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.

The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they're blessings. They're blessings in every way. Whether you're able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever it is, you're just a channel.

I used to keep my Air Jordans icy white. I had one toothbrush for my teeth - and a couple of toothbrushes for my shoes.

Sometimes a producer and an artist get together and they make magic like Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. As far as my own music career - you could liken my chemistry with Timbaland to Marty Scorsese and Robert De Niro.

The golf swing is very, very rhythmic. There's a certain tempo to it, just like in music.

I know what it takes to put on a good show for the fans.

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.

I had a Jackson 5 wig that I would wear around, and I would do, like, the dances from the Jackson 5, and, you know, my mother thought that was hysterical. So of course, that seed got planted very early, the physicality of comedy.

I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

The only thing I wasn't prepared for was being everywhere all at the same time.