Jared Leto

“I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.”

“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.”

“Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.”

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

“Be brave, follow dreams, say fuck you to everybody and fight for what you believe in.”

“I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.”

“I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'”

“I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.”

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

“I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure.”

“I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.”

“A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo.”

“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.”

“Don't regret anything you do, because in the end it makes you who you are.”

“Try and fail, but never fail to try!”

“Don't ever ask for permission to follow your dreams. Follow them no matter fucking what. It's important. We have one life here and you are the author of your story, more than anybody else. You are much more responsible for your dreams coming true or not than anyone else in your life you have contacted with. So, dream big, work hard, and make it happen no matter what.”