Justin Timberlake Quotes & Sayings

#1. My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.

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#2. In films, I didn't crave the type of attention I had sort of stumbled into in my music career. And I do not audition well. I'm really not good at it. Early on, I did movies like 'Alpha Dog' and 'Black Snake Moan' because the directors didn't ask me to audition.

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#3. This isn't about the money. This is just for me. I love music.

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#4. Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

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#5. Sometimes I don't even know what to name a song when I get done with it, and I'll let somebody else tell me what I should call it because it's whatever stuck in their head.

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

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#7. I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

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#8. I think I had a knack for music, but I think what I was more sort of talented at more than anything, because I don't think I'm a great singer, I think that I grew up imitating different voices that I heard.

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#9. My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

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#10. I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.

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#11. The right scent can make you feel a little more stylish, but it should never eclipse who you are. It should complement who you are.

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#12. I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.

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#13. 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.

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#14. I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?

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#15. England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.

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#16. I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.

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#17. Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.

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#18. That's something I learned from both my stepdad and my grandfather - that there is a thing called chivalry, and it doesn't have to die with the birth of the Internet. The way I see it, if you're asking a girl out on a date, it's only right to do it in a way that she can hear your voice.

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#19. The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised.

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#20. When I was a kid, I would impersonate anything that I would hear. It's - actually, I attribute that more to why I actually was able to become a musician and a singer.

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#21. I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

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#22. With the exception of octopus, I don't think I've met any food that I didn't like. And by the way, sometimes I do like octopus. I'm just not crazy about it by itself. I love sea urchin. I love uni. If I'm going to die of anything, it's going to be gluttony.

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#23. My earliest memories as a kid was I would always try to make my mom and my stepdad laugh at dinner. Or make my friends laugh in class. And, I don't know, it's something I just really enjoy doing.

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#24. I believe mustard to be one of the most amazing condiments.

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

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#26. We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she's getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it's working.

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#27. Hosting 'SNL' was something I'd always wanted to do. The show allowed me to play to my strengths - mixing music with comedy seemed like a way into that world.

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#28. Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and go straight to video.' When you're in it, you think you're doing the best work you can do. You're surrounded by people who are working hard. Everybody's hopeful.

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#29. In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.

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#30. The Grammys used me for ratings. And they were up 18 percent!

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#31. I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

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#32. You cannot make a difference unless you're different.

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#33. We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.

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#34. We want to evolve; like the Stones.

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#35. My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

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#36. The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with your friends.

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#37. The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

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#38. As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.

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#39. I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art ... I was an outcast in a lot of ways ... but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what's going to make you sexy as an adult.

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

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#41. I believe in things I can count on, like beer and ESPN and my grandmother's pecan pie.

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#42. 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.

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#43. Every time you do a project, you learn something new.

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#44. Resolutions are just like rules. They're just made to be broken.

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#45. I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.

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

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#47. Technology's related to everything. Technology is making the world more accessible, so yeah, as generations go by, they'll become more and more married to each other, for sure. I think they go hand in hand - fashion inspires design, and technology inspires design as well.

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#48. 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.

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#49. You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

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#50. My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

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#51. 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.

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#52. The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

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#53. I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

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#54. Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.

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#55. I used to think I actually was Batman.

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#56. True love, to me, is when she's the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.

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#57. I'll get you naked by the end of this song.

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#58. The fans have been great to me. I don't think it's asking too much to have me sign something for them.

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#59. I would never do anything just for spite.

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#60. I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.

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#61. The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

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

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#63. My favorite moments in the show are when I stand by myself and sing.

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#64. If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

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#65. You mean, like a book?

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

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#67. Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

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

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

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#70. The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

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

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#72. 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.

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#73. I have OCD mixed with ADD; you try living with that.

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#74. I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned because I listen to everything.

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#75. Sexy, to me, is the way you carry what you have. I have a big nose, but I rock it.

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#76. 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?

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#77. The only thing that I travel with is an Ole Henriksen facial cleanser, something that my skin is used to avoid using different soaps at different hotels all the time, and Givenchy Man Pro-Energizing Massive Moisturizer. I usually keep my hair pretty short, too, so I don't require a lot of stuff.

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#78. Yesterday is history
Tomorrow's a mystery

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#79. My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

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#80. I think with each generation comes more opportunity. At least that's the way that I see it. I grew up in a generation that watched the birth of the internet. We all have. But I feel like I look around at the generation younger than me and it's a very opportunistic mantra.

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#81. Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.

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#82. It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.

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#83. 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.

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#84. I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.

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#85. The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

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#86. The teachers that we actually learn more from are the ones that taught us life lessons more than trigonometry. And they have such a huge responsibility and they're under-appreciated and underpaid. So that's my opinion of teachers.

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#87. I'm completely removed from any hype that comes my way.

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#88. Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.

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#89. Practice ur craft and make it the best it can possibly be-Justin Timberlake

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#90. Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

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#91. We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.

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#92. I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

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#93. You spend so much time developing a character when you do a film; so much of your work is done before you get set to shoot because you've been working on the character: the way he walks, the way he talks, what might upset him, what might make him happy.

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