Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Justin Hartley - Page 2

A TV show besides 'This is Us' that makes me cry? Not a shocker, but 'Game of Thrones.'

I don't have a twin, but I do have a brother and sisters, and I do know that there is a special bond there that is - I'm going to say - closer. It's different. It's closer than having a best friend. It's easier to forgive them. I think it's also easier to get mad at them. You feel a little piece of yourself in them.

I try to be as calm and as reassuring and a rock to my daughter as I possibly can be. I try to teach her everything that I never knew when I was her age, and I try to give her all the advantages and the things that I didn't have when I was her age.

Certainly my time on 'Revenge' was great; it was a different character I'd never played before.

I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with tons of money.

There's nothing worse when you have a job, and you read something, and you're like, 'God. How am I possibly going to make this work?'

Work begets work. I've always taken the jobs - I've tried to take the jobs where the story is full or the characters are full.

I think any actor can relate to the feeling of 'Just tag me in, coach, give me a chance.' Athletes go through the same thing. To be quite honest, most people in any job or career probably go though that, when you want a chance to prove what you can do, or somebody is taking away a chance at something you can do.

I worked all through my 20s, all through my 30s, so I've been lucky to be working.

I have a wonderful wife who loves me, who's fantastic, who's just the thrill of my life - intriguing and mind-blowing.

On my last two days of 'Young and the Restless,' I had 120-something pages of dialogue. My last two days.

I'm always going to be looking for something artistically or whatever. I think that's part of being driven, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm unhappy.

Being an actor, you go through this thing where you want to be the best, and I think, in life in general, you go through this thing where you want to be the best always, constantly.

Anytime you go through a divorce, you're completely lost. Whether you want to admit it or not, or whether you know it or not, you're completely lost.

I have a little bit of experience going in and playing a character - I played a character on 'Smallville' that had been established for decades and decades before I took it.

Anytime you can get people to watch you on anything, it's very flattering.

Sometimes we'll only see each other in passing, like ships passing in the night.

I have a 12-year-old daughter, and all the time people will say, 'Oh, she's young!" and you'd be so surprised what you can learn from that 12-year-old if you just opened up your mind.

I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from.

Some relationships are stronger than others at certain times.

I have no problem at all taking my shirt off to tell a story.

I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world, I have fans that come from superhero world, which are a whole different section of fans. They're so cool.

Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention.

When people are fanatical about something, it's contagious.

There are certain things that are obviously problems and should be topics of conversation that aren't.

I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.

When you find any great project - if it's onstage or it's a movie or a television show or whatever it might be, if it's wonderful, then that sort of transcends what the medium is.

At 36, I think I was pretty happy [actually], but here's the thing that I think happens... you're expected to be somewhere at 36, and there's that feeling: At this particular age - especially for women for God's sake - you should have this many kids, you should have a husband, or you should have this... and it's overwhelming. So that perpetuates the feeling that no matter where you are, no matter how much money you have, no matter how many kids you have, no matter how great they're doing, whether you want kids or not, married or not, it doesn't matter - you feel behind.

I worked all through my 20's, all through my 30's, so I've been lucky to be working.

I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.

As you get older, you welcome people into your family because siblings get married and have kids. But then people also get divorces and things like that, and sometimes there's an exit from the family.

I've struggled with money when I could have had a little more if I'd just taken the damn job.

I would tell myself the same thing that I continue to tell myself today, which is don't sweat the small things.

Everybody has an inside scoop, so just be a nice guy. Be a nice person.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

People that are interested in me, I like to be interested in them.

We need people interested, otherwise literally the lights turn off.

I have a pretty close family and there are certain similarities - maybe a lot of families have this - where geographically, we're separated, so there are times when one family member will be needing a lot at one particular moment, so everyone rallies around that particular family member. Then there are other moments where, if [the family is] okay, I might not talk to my brother for two or three weeks, but then if I get him on the phone at five in the afternoon, it feels like we spoke that morning.

I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

Don't forget where you came from and treat people a certain way.

I took a lot from friends, but also me.

I'm still waiting for somebody to wake me up.

Anytime you go through a divorce, you're completely lost, whether you want to admit it or not, or whether you know it or not, you're completely lost.

My daughter is 12, and we have an amazing relationship. She knows without a doubt that she can literally come to me with anything, and I will stifle myself and realize that if it's not what I want to hear, it's more important that she continues to come to me and tell me things and is honest with me than me getting mad at her or giving her my opinion right now. She has figured out a way to make me an amazing parent. She's a wonderful daughter.

We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.