Justin Theroux famous quotes

07-17-2025

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
-- Justin Theroux

#Thinking #Suffering #Trying
I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
-- Justin Theroux

#Thinking #Guy #Bed
I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world.
-- Justin Theroux

#Thinking #Our World #Needs
It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.
-- Justin Theroux

#Winning #Wife #Car
There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.
-- Justin Theroux

#Dream #Giving #Why Things Happen
I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.
-- Justin Theroux

#News #Television
If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself.
-- Justin Theroux

#Years #Tvs #Seven
Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.
-- Justin Theroux

#Television #Able #Individual
I love New York. It's kind of perfect. I'm in New York part of the time and in L.A. part of the time. That's always been a goal, to be bicoastal in a real way.
-- Justin Theroux

#New York #Real #Perfect
I didn't really because I know myself well enough to know that if I actually sit down and think about sort of I can spook myself out like anyone, you know? It's sort of like you've got to sort of jump out of the airplane when you're skydiving. If you spend 20 minutes sitting on the lip you probably won't do it.
-- Justin Theroux

#Airplane #Thinking #Sitting
I mean the good thing about Marvel is that they're really good about reading what they call the shareholders - the fans. Because they really are the keepers of what keeps these movies going, you know?
-- Justin Theroux

#Reading #Mean #Fans
You can get stuff done in New York that you can't in Los Angeles. If you wanted to get some milk and get your shoes repaired and drop something off at the dry cleaner, that's an all-day adventure in Los Angeles. In New York, you can bang that out in half an hour.
-- Justin Theroux

#New York #Adventure #Shoes
There was a moment, late into the season, where I was noticing I was darkening a little bit at night. I was like, 'It will be nice when the show is over for the season. I need a vacation.'
-- Justin Theroux

#Nice #Night #Vacation
It's the fun part 'cause you don't have any of the real heavy-lifting to do. You just come in and shout and chew scenery, and just be awful and say a few jokes, and you don't have to carry the romantic storyline or the quest part of the story. You just pop up, every now and again.
-- Justin Theroux

#Fun #Real #Stories
I devoured TV - everything from Super Friends in the morning to Dukes of Hazzard and The Love Boat and Fantasy Island at night. I watched it all. There were only four channels, so you could actually consume all of television if you were good at changing the channel.
-- Justin Theroux

#Morning #Night #Islands
When I was 13, I kind of got into the punk scene. I realized it was easier to wear a pair of combat boots and jeans and a beat-up T-shirt. I think of it as a uniform: Ya know, if you're a Maytag man, you put on your bow tie. I still have T-shirts from when I was that age.
-- Justin Theroux

#Men #Thinking #Jeans
I like all the clichés. I mean, I love someone who lives in Los Angeles - so that's a big draw. But I love the weather. It does feel like a slightly healthier lifestyle, being able to hike and do all that crap.
-- Justin Theroux

#Mean #Weather #Doe
I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I mean, I was ambitious about quality, but I wasn't ambitious in the "I've got to get a pilot!" way. I never went out to L.A. for pilot season.
-- Justin Theroux

#Ambition #Mean #Thinking
I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or learning them or writing them. And so, by the time the day is done, I usually just want to click on The Bachelor and fall asleep. But I gravitate toward biographies and things like that.
-- Justin Theroux

#Fall #Reading #Book
I had such a distaste for '70s clothing. So, the '90s were a rough period for me because I got made fun of for wearing what they used to call "pegged pants." Now they call them "skinny jeans."
-- Justin Theroux

#Fun #Jeans #Pants
D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.
-- Justin Theroux

#Growing Up #Cities #Late
I stole a lot from Gary Oldman. I stole the hairdo from his incarnation of Dracula. We cheated it just enough, so we couldn't get accused of copyright infringement.
-- Justin Theroux

#Enough #Infringement #Cheated
I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every night." It's so dark and so bottomless.
-- Justin Theroux

#Dark #Night #Play
I'm not method or anything like that, but sometimes you get the scenes and you're like 'Really, Damon [Lindelof]? More of this? Can I have one scene where it's a walk in the park?' But he doesn't do that. He puts every character through their paces.
-- Justin Theroux

#Character #Pace #Parks
In New York, you can bump into someone on the street and go to a thing, go get coffee real quick.
-- Justin Theroux

#New York #Real #Coffee
Normally when you're promoting something a lot, sometimes you get tired.
-- Justin Theroux

#Tired #Sometimes #Promoting
After my parents got divorced, I had to go right into public school in the fourth grade. The Steiner school had never really taught me how to read, so it was a rude awakening. I was playing catch-up the whole time.
-- Justin Theroux

#School #Rude #Parent
I hate when people make a really good product and then stop making it. I get annoyed.
-- Justin Theroux

#Hate #People #Annoyed

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