Latest Justin Timberlake Quotes from Interviews

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• I think, for me specifically when it comes to music, I don't think that I need any persuading to think about it. It's always kind of in the back of your mind and - but I think it's part of who I am and always will be, I mean, in a very cellular way. When you grow up doing, you know, one thing, I think you get to this place where you want to try new things. And I do think that we live in the type of world where people get comfortable with you in one way, and so seeing you in a different way, it takes some time.

  Justin Timberlake

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

  "Justin Timberlake On Music, Comedy And Wearing Out His NPR T-Shirt". "Monkey See" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 29, 2011.

• I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for instance, I don't think I'm particularly a great singer, but I feel like I write songs that complement my voice, you know, and I feel like it's unique. And I don't feel like I'm particularly a great actor, for instance, but I feel like I approach each thing that I do with some level of sensitivity. And I would say that comedy in general is the most disarming.

  Justin Timberlake

  Song, Writing, Unique

  "Justin Timberlake On Music, Comedy And Wearing Out His NPR T-Shirt". "Monkey See" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 29, 2011.

• I think with each generation comes more opportunity. At least that's the way that I see it. I grew up in a generation that watched the birth of the internet. We all have. But I feel like I look around at the generation younger than me and it's a very opportunistic mantra.

  Justin Timberlake

  Opportunity, Thinking, Generations

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• The Internet is a really strange place to be.

  Justin Timberlake

  Strange Places, Strange, Internet

  "Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz have a good chat about 'Bad Teacher'". Hollywood News Interview, www.hollywoodnews.com. June 22, 2011.

• I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.

  Justin Timberlake

  Careers, Voice, Together

• The teachers that we actually learn more from are the ones that taught us life lessons more than trigonometry. And they have such a huge responsibility and they're under-appreciated and underpaid. So that's my opinion of teachers.

  Justin Timberlake

  Teacher, Life Lesson, Responsibility

• We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.

  Justin Timberlake

  Teacher, Home, Responsibility

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.

  Justin Timberlake

  Stars, Hippie, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned, because I listen to everything.

  Justin Timberlake

  Mutts, Music Is, Concerned

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.

  Justin Timberlake

  Creating, Creation, Responsible

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.

  Justin Timberlake

  Dad, Men, Advice

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

  Justin Timberlake

  Basketball, Growing Up, Player

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the melody than it wasn't worth remembering. So it's my way to test myself in the studio. When I was a kid I could sing pretty well so melody always made a lot of sense to me.

  Justin Timberlake

  Writing, Kids, Tests

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.

  Justin Timberlake

  Kids, Challenges, Attention

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.

  Justin Timberlake

  Jobs, People, Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.

  Justin Timberlake

  Mom, Kids, Eight

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.

  Justin Timberlake

  Careers, Musical, Acting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

  Justin Timberlake

  Football, Play, Loner

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.

  Justin Timberlake

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  Source: movieweb.com

• In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.

  Justin Timberlake

  Creating, People, Directors

  Source: movieweb.com

• I'm not a comedian so I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but I think with a lot of comedy the impetus behind it is: I've been rejected so many times and I'm bitter and now I'm going to talk about it.

  Justin Timberlake

  Thinking, Comedian, Comedy

  Source: www.gq.com

• I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

  Justin Timberlake

  Creating, Expectations, Worry