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
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.
It's nice because I think a lot of people would rather stay home and play a video game these days then go to a rock show.
I always love to put hidden messages in my music videos, because I know there are people like me who, when they watch something, are really active, involved participants. I'm not usually a really passive listener or observer. So I do put those messages in there for people who spend a great deal of time [looking for them].
Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.
Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music!
So many people have tried to get happiness and serenity from outside things; it's pretty much common knowledge that is a road to nowhere. I've never heard anybody say, 'Fame made me the complete person I am.' Well, I'm sure people have said it, but nobody I respect.
It's nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.
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.
On the one hand, how many people do you need to love you before you feel OK about yourself?
Labels are for cans, not for people.
All those reports that I sleep in my closet. I don’t know how people get that. People are so obsessed with what you do at home.
I think what a big part of 30 Seconds to Mars is, it's not only music, it's not only art, it's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong. And not everybody will understand it, and that's ok, it's just for the people that do.
There are always going to be people that are judgmental that are going to say, 'Well, he was an actor first, so he doesn't have the right to be a musician,' or, 'I know him as this, so therefore I will never accept him as that.' I can't change those people. I can only be myself. And I can only keep making art. I can only do the best that I can. I am not going to spend my life trying to silence the critics. I'm going to do what I'm passionate about and follow my dreams.
I don't really care what people say. If I'm wearing, like, a tie-dye onesie and I'm in the middle of the desert, I'm not doing it for fashion points; I'm doing it because it's fun or it makes me feel good.