Jared Leto Quotes

When you make music, you’re in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They’re stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.

So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

It’s not like I’m hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I’m so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.

Music is subjective to everyone’s unique experience.

It’s nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

It’s nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.

It gives us a look into a world that’s very much like ‘Traffic’ was for drugs, this movie is for gun running. Dark at times, but I think Nic Cage is an incredible person to watch and very entertaining.

It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I’ve been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked.

I’ve always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it’s been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you’ve given something planetary status it’s kind of mean to take it away.

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.

I was never interested in ‘Teen Beat’ like roles. I just wanted to work.

I understand a lot of the female needs. I’m not saying I know all of them all the time though.

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.