Latest Justin Theroux Quotes from Interviews

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• When you hear about people in the '50s getting married at 20, you're like, What were they thinking? My grandparents were together for over 50 years.

  Justin Theroux

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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

  Source: www.elle.com

• Normally when you're promoting something a lot, sometimes you get tired.

  Justin Theroux

  Tired, Sometimes, Promoting

  Source: www.elle.com

• I've never been the guy who's like, 'I take it home with me.'

  Justin Theroux

  Home, Guy

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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

  Source: www.elle.com

• I feel more comfortable writing firmly comedic or slightly comedic stuff.

  Justin Theroux

  Writing, Stuff, Comedic

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• There was a time when doing "Zoolander 2" that I was literally flying between the "Zoolander" shoot and "The Leftovers" in Texas and at that point, I was getting comedy whiplash. It was a relief, though, to get to Rome and be like, "Oh my God, I get to laugh on set."

  Justin Theroux

  Texas, Rome, Laughing

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.

  Justin Theroux

  Hawaii, Computer, Whole

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• You try to break it down to weeks at a time otherwise you sort of make yourself crazy spinning out going from one....you just can't get your head around one of them fully. So I'm more task oriented. I like to sort of like focus on one thing for a couple of weeks...and also they're all in different stages of development.

  Justin Theroux

  Couple, Crazy, Focus

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• I would always choose the script. You get more creative control that way. But, when you're in a situation like this, where everyone is really funny and you really want to do it, that's the chance of a lifetime, so you want to do it. But, a script has longer legs than a performance and, in the end, is more satisfying. It's harder, but it's more satisfying.

  Justin Theroux

  Creative, Legs, Want

  Source: collider.com

• Any good movie or script usually, if they're doing their job, gives the highest platform possible for an actor to leap off of, and that script was very high up there. It was a very smart, tight script. There was a lot of improv, as well, once we got to the set, but a lot of the original script was also in there.

  Justin Theroux

  Jobs, Smart, Giving

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• Being a fan of comedy, it's so unique, in their own voice. I was really stoked to be able to participate. They're so great at just coming up with stuff on the fly and making stuff funny.

  Justin Theroux

  Unique, Voice, Fans

  Source: collider.com

• I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

  Justin Theroux

  School, Play, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Interview with Amy Sedaris, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2014.

• 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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't miss much about my childhood. I lived in a good neighborhood, a wacky neighborhood. It was a very boy-heavy neighborhood - kind of Lord of the Flies-y. So many weird things happened, funny things.

  Justin Theroux

  Boys, Funny Things, Childhood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've always liked boots. I always think it's better to wear a boot, not a shoe.

  Justin Theroux

  Thinking, Shoes, Boots

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com