Justin Hartley Quotes

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you’re wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.

There are people that have watched everything I’ve done, which is so sweet. Sometimes I’m grateful for that; sometimes I feel like I have to apologize.

‘Smallville’ was one of those things where we worked a lot of nights, and there were a lot of physical scenes. I was hurt a lot, but I loved it! The ‘Revenge‘ cast was also one of the greatest, most gracious casts I’ve ever been a part of.

I’ve been lucky. I’ve never really had a job that I did that I didn’t like.

I don’t know – I think guys don’t get as much credit as they deserve sometimes for how hard it is to put a great look together. It’s so easy to just do a ‘suit,’ but to make it look a little different, it takes some effort.

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

I think any time you have a show that, after you watch it, it sort of sits with you for a while, and you take pause and you talk about it, yeah, it affects your life.

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 have great respect for daytime drama. I love the branding. I love the style. What can I say? I love good soap!

Any father can relate to feeling like a superhero when you put a Band–Aid on your kid.

I was the worst actor, but here’s the cool thing about it: I had no idea.

I try to look clean, but I like a balance between put-together and comfortable.

I don’t know if I have a specific style icon.

I channel a lot of my own personal relationships anytime I prep for something.

‘Game of Thrones’ is a good one to binge-watch, except you realize at the end of every episode that you’ve been holding your breath for, like, 30 minutes, which is probably not good for your brain.

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.

It’s all about story and character with me, and I don’t care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I’ll do my acting on a street corner.

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.

It’s weird. You find a safe place in someone who you feel like maybe they can’t judge you because they don’t know you.

On a soap opera, you’ll do an episode and a half a day, and in prime time television, you’re hustling to get an episode done in eight days. That’s a little bit frustrating sometimes. But there’s also something exhilarating about it. It’s kind of like live theater in a way, where you get one crack at it.

I’ve taken a lot of risks as far as turning down money to do something I guess I thought was more meaningful. But I don’t know if that’s the best piece of advice, because I’ve also struggled with money, when I could have had a little more if I’d just taken the damn job.

‘Y&R’ is the No. 1 show, and the acting company is exceptional.

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

Had more confidence than I probably should have in high school. But I do remember feeling like I wish I could physically mature a little faster, fill out. In college it started to happen a little bit more, and my confidence started to grow – then I got out to L.A., and that got squashed immediately.

I became interested in ‘Smallville’ when ‘Aquaman’ was not picked up and my mortgage was due. Kidding. The real reason is that it was an easy decision.

People will come up and say – and it is insulting – ‘Do you ever want to do anything else? Like some real acting? Or a real show?’ Here’s the thing: You can either get upset about that, or you can realize that that person isn’t trying to offend you. They’re literally interested, and they’re asking you a question.

If I bring my work home, it’s wonderful.

I love me some Martin Sheen.

A lot of times, you watch a trailer for something, and then by the time you get to see the actual movie or show, you realize that the best parts were in the trailer.

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.

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.

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?’

Every time you turn on the TV, you see some kind of heartbreaking story.

I’m so pumped about joining ‘Y&R’ – I watch it all the time and can’t wait to get in there and get my hands dirty!

I’m second, and so my brother is first. Being second, sometimes you get left out and all of that. The anecdotal stories about the firstborn, the baby, the middle – all of that is true.

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.

It’s interesting because I’ll be out, and someone will say, ‘I just loved you on ‘Passions‘! Did you just quit acting after that?’.

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.

Every job you have, there are days that are more difficult than others. I worked on a daytime soap opera, where the volume at which you’re producing this medium is incredible.

It’s called ‘A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius‘ by Dave Eggers. It is absolutely everything the title implies. It’s the greatest book I’ve ever.

She calls me Aquaman, which is kind of embarrassing, having your daughter call you the name of a canceled show. When she‘s being a little smarty-pants, she calls me Justin.

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

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

I love acting, and so whenever I get the opportunity to act, I’m happy. I’m easy to please when it comes to that kind of stuff. I don’t know what I’d do without it.

You mess up as a dad, and you have your worst moments.

Unfortunately, I know very little about Indian cinema. I know we have Bollywood… But my knowledge about it is very little.

I found a very comfortable style in that if I know everyone‘s job around me, it’s going to make me better at my job.

I always tell people this; when they say, ‘What’s gonna happen here? What’s gonna happen here?’ I always tell people, ‘You think you want to know, but you really don’t. You want to experience the event as it happens on TV.’

Whether it be with your parents or your siblings, everyone is dealing with different kinds of things.

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