Jared Leto
Jared Leto
Jared Joseph Letois an American actor, singer-songwriter, and director. After starting his career with television appearances in the early 1990s, Leto achieved recognition for his role as Jordan Catalano on the television series My So-Called Life. He made his film debut in How to Make an American Quiltand received critical praise for his performance in Prefontaine. Leto played supporting roles in The Thin Red Line, Fight Cluband American Psycho, as well as the lead role in Urban Legend, and earned...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 December 1971
CityBossier City, LA
CountryUnited States of America
I don’t like doing interviews. I’m not pretending to be some super neurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken.
Don't ask for anyone's permission to follow your dreams
On the one hand, how many people do you need to love you before you feel OK about yourself?
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.
The bridge between reality and a dream is work.
Follow your dreams, quit your job
I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.
You're weak. Be strong and it's easy.
Sometimes you have to fight in order to be free.
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.'
In some ways you become who you really are, if you work hard enough on who you wish to be.
I'm terminally dissatisfied. That's probably part of being an artist.
I've never made money from films,
No one has to give you permission to make music or make art.