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
If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.
I found a very comfortable style in that if I know everyone's job around me, it's going to make me better at my job.
I have great respect for daytime drama. I love the branding. I love the style. What can I say? I love good soap!
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.
One of the things I wanted to do was direct. There've been a couple of times that a director will walk up and say something to me, and all it does is make me mad. Inside I'll go, 'Well, that wasn't helpful at all.'
It's all about story and character with me, and I don't care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I'll do my acting on a street corner.
Any father can relate to feeling like a superhero when you put a Band-Aid on your kid.
I'm so pumped about joining 'Y&R' - I watch it all the time and can't wait to get in there and get my hands dirty!
I know, who doesn't want to play a superhero, right? And everyone wants to play Superman or Batman. Everyone wants to play a superhero.
I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with tons of money.
I took a lot from friends, but also me.
I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from.
I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.
I have no problem at all taking my shirt off to tell a story.