Top 100 Hartnett Quotes
#1. That wasn't Josh Hartnett; that kid was eighteen years old," Kate said.
I told you, they age slower out here. It's all the fresh California air," Val replied.
Yes, because that's exactly what Los Angeles is known for," Kate said dryly. "Clean air.
Julie James
#2. I wanted to watch you bloom. I wanted to be the man who made you blossom and here I am, face to face with the most beautiful flower I've ever seen. And now it's mine.
J.B. Hartnett
#3. If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.
Josh Hartnett
#4. I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was pus and blood all over the place. That was enough for me.
Josh Hartnett
#5. You're just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others.
Sonya Hartnett
#6. There are two secrets to a successful marriage. The first is having a husband who makes you laugh. The second is never telling your husband what you're laughing at.
John Hartnett
#7. Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.
Sonya Hartnett
#8. I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.
Josh Hartnett
#9. In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.
Sonya Hartnett
#10. It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.
Sonya Hartnett
#11. When I turned 18, I skipped my party to take my girlfriend on a road trip. It turned out to be an amazing birthday.
Josh Hartnett
#12. Some things about him are the same as ever. He still looks painfully angelic.
Sonya Hartnett
#13. I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.
Josh Hartnett
#14. My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!
Josh Hartnett
#15. I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing.
Josh Hartnett
#16. I want my life to be mystifying, she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.
Sonya Hartnett
#17. I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children's literature. This has been the bane of my life.
Sonya Hartnett
#18. When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.
Josh Hartnett
#20. I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.
Sonya Hartnett
#21. I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.
Josh Hartnett
#22. I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.
Josh Hartnett
#23. But when you know, you know. And when you've lost everything you thought was real, you recognize real when you see it. You just have to trust it.
J.B. Hartnett
#24. I'm looking forward to finding someone in life that I can be truly happy with and relate to on all levels - someone I can bounce my stuff off. Right now, though, I'm not searching for that. I couldn't possibly handle it at this point. But I still like knowing it will be out there sometime later.
Josh Hartnett
#25. Shit, I don't want to lose my feet. I like my feet.
Tyson Hartnett
#26. I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink.
Sonya Hartnett
#27. Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery.
Sonya Hartnett
#28. Just a few more minutes here, I suggest: life hates to leave, worried what it might miss. But Vernon, closer, is shaking his head. This is all.
Sonya Hartnett
#29. I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.
Josh Hartnett
#30. I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!
Josh Hartnett
#31. I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.
Josh Hartnett
#32. Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.
Josh Hartnett
#33. Goodbye, fin,' I say. And I wish I was going with him, to some warm sheltered hideaway in the hills, wish that I, too, could lie down beside the dog, feel his unbroken heartbeat, smell the dust in his fur.
There's only hours. I steel my courage.
Surrender.
Sonya Hartnett
#34. My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.
Josh Hartnett
#35. Then let's be scared together, Anika. Let me love you the way you should be loved. We'll take each day as it comes, but we have to talk. You have to promise me that if you start to feel panicky at all, you'll tell me. Don't walk away. I want to help, I mean it.
J.B. Hartnett
#36. My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!
Josh Hartnett
#37. We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.
Josh Hartnett
#38. You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive.
Sonya Hartnett
#39. Because your pain is my pain, Anika. I can't take it away, but I'll wear it with you.
J.B. Hartnett
#40. I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.
Josh Hartnett
#41. You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I'm too flirtatious with people I'm trying not to flirt with! What I am good at is making people feel uncomfortable. I don't want to but it always ends up happening!
Josh Hartnett
#42. A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.
Sonya Hartnett
#43. No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.
Sonya Hartnett
#44. You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!
Josh Hartnett
#45. I feel it in my bones that if I had a kid, I would not either continue to write or have written the book I have done. So it's just me and the dog. I've always gotten along better with animals than I have with children, anyway.
Sonya Hartnett
#46. Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.
Josh Hartnett
#47. Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.
Josh Hartnett
#48. Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.
Sonya Hartnett
#49. Bad people aren't happy ... Wickedness often wears fancy clothes, dines on rich food, has money, controls armies, rules nations ... but it never seems to know joy. Peace, laughter, trust, ease: these things flee from wickedness like sparrows from the shadow of a hawk.
Sonya Hartnett
#50. If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.
Josh Hartnett
#51. My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.
Josh Hartnett
#52. How stupid it is that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else.
Sonya Hartnett
#53. You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.
Josh Hartnett
#54. If a girl doesn't have a sense of humor, then what would you have to talk about?
Josh Hartnett
#57. My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.
Josh Hartnett
#58. Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.
Sonya Hartnett
#59. Andrej thought about it - the notion that the
world was riddled with holes where certain people and animals were meant to be, but weren't.
Sonya Hartnett
#60. How can you know love, and lose it, and go on living without it, and not feel the loss forever?"
"You can't," Feather answered. "You feel the loss forever. But you put it in a corner of yourself, and bit by bit some of your sorrow changes into joy. And that's how you go on living.
Sonya Hartnett
#61. It's stupid to be that way, so easily hurt; it's better to be like a plank of wood, an emotional mule. It's best not to feel, ... best to have your nerve endings cauterized.
Sonya Hartnett
#62. I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.
Sonya Hartnett
#63. I have thought you could not give everything to your books and also to your children, so for a long time, I thought if I had a child or a family, I'd think, 'How would I support them?' because basically I would stop writing.
Sonya Hartnett
#64. Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.
Josh Hartnett
#65. I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.
Josh Hartnett
#66. You're light, Victoria. And when you're ready, I hope I get to make you shine again.
J.B. Hartnett
#68. But what she feels is sometimes hard to express ... Much of what is best in her is warped on the voyage from within to without.
Sonya Hartnett
#69. I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and do the things I knew I could do for a while.
Josh Hartnett
#70. How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?
Sonya Hartnett
#71. I think that just your tastes change as you get older and I think they'll continue to change.
Josh Hartnett
#72. She is not a musical girl nor, intrinsically, a joyful girl; but the music of the four Swedes shook something awake inside her, and when she heard it she felt airborne and strong.
Sonya Hartnett
#73. Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect, like the paring of skin from a hard apple.
Sonya Hartnett
#74. Never fuck with a scorned woman's scorned daughter.
J.B. Hartnett
#75. I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.
Josh Hartnett
#76. Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.
Josh Hartnett
#77. I love you, she told him, and he knew that this was true, and she knew that he believed her; but when she said it she saw the chain around his ankle, a length of links that let him wander, but not far. She did not see the chain around her own ankle, because love is blind.
Sonya Hartnett
#78. When the door closed behind him, I cried. I was still crying when my mom returned, and I continued to cry through the night. And then I stopped crying. And started to live for me.
J.B. Hartnett
#79. I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.
Josh Hartnett
#80. She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly.
Sonya Hartnett
#81. More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.
Sonya Hartnett
#82. Justin is twenty-four years old: the world will never be more suited to him than it is now, he will never feel more embraced by life or have greater faith in his right to exist. The earth and the oxygen, the cities and lights, the nights and the beaches seem created for him and for those like him.
Sonya Hartnett
#83. You always underestimated me. You thought you made me harmless when you gave angelhood to me. You forgot that some angels are warriors. Where there's warriors, there's war. I will fight to the death. It's my duty. I am not afraid.
Sonya Hartnett
#84. We made 16 episodes of Cracker and I loved doing the show, but unfortunately no one was watching us.
Josh Hartnett
#85. Thank God for my ADD. I would have killed myself along time ago, but I got bored of it when something else diverted me.
Jason Hartnett
#86. I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.
Josh Hartnett
#87. People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.
Josh Hartnett
#88. I spent my entire first pay cheque from 'Cracker,' a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.
Josh Hartnett
#89. My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.
Josh Hartnett
#90. I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.
Sonya Hartnett
#91. It's the beard," I said to my friends matter-of-factly. "It makes me want to just climb up onto his face, hold onto his man-mane, and take a ride. Wait, did I just say that out loud?
J.B. Hartnett
#92. There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.
Sonya Hartnett
#93. I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.
Sonya Hartnett
#94. I had a good time shooting in New Zealand. I almost bought a home there while I was there, because I loved it so much.
Josh Hartnett
#95. I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to be new and have some real artistic integrity.
Josh Hartnett
#96. We'd better go before I try to make out with you in my kitchen." She laughed out loud, her dark hair shining in the fluorescent lights. "Zack would love that!
J.B. Hartnett
#98. I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.
Josh Hartnett
#99. The quest for power is strange in that, once the quest has begun, the destination always seems to shift ever further away. What power one has is never enough; whatever happiness one had turns to bitterness.
Sonya Hartnett
#100. Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.
Josh Hartnett
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