Justin Hartley
Justin Hartley
Justin Scott Hartley is an American actor. His best known roles include Fox Crane on the NBC daytime soap opera Passionsand Oliver Queen on The CW's superhero series Smallville. Hartley has also appeared on Emily Owens, M.D., Revenge and Mistresses. In 2014, he began portraying Adam Newman on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth29 January 1977
CityKnoxeville, IL
CountryUnited States of America
We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.
I have a 12-year-old daughter, and all the time people will say, 'Oh, she's young!" and you'd be so surprised what you can learn from that 12-year-old if you just opened up your mind.
I love acting, and so whenever I get the opportunity to act, I'm happy. I'm easy to please when it comes to that kind of stuff. I don't know what I'd do without it.
I would tell myself the same thing that I continue to tell myself today, which is don't sweat the small things.
Anytime you go through a divorce, you're completely lost, whether you want to admit it or not, or whether you know it or not, you're completely lost.
At 36, I think I was pretty happy [actually], but here's the thing that I think happens... you're expected to be somewhere at 36, and there's that feeling: At this particular age - especially for women for God's sake - you should have this many kids, you should have a husband, or you should have this... and it's overwhelming. So that perpetuates the feeling that no matter where you are, no matter how much money you have, no matter how many kids you have, no matter how great they're doing, whether you want kids or not, married or not, it doesn't matter - you feel behind.
I'm always going to be looking for something artistically or whatever. I think that's part of being driven, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm unhappy.
My daughter is 12, and we have an amazing relationship. She knows without a doubt that she can literally come to me with anything, and I will stifle myself and realize that if it's not what I want to hear, it's more important that she continues to come to me and tell me things and is honest with me than me getting mad at her or giving her my opinion right now. She has figured out a way to make me an amazing parent. She's a wonderful daughter.
I worked all through my 20's, all through my 30's, so I've been lucky to be working.
There are people that have watched everything I've done, which is so sweet. Sometimes I'm grateful for that; sometimes I feel like I have to apologize.
I'm still waiting for somebody to wake me up.
I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.