Justin Timberlake has been GQ's Man of The Year, but the singer tells the magazine his fame comes with great costs.
In the magazine interview, Timberlake talks about his successes just as much as his failures as the world watches him, including a Variety ran an op-ed piece about why he should stop acting but it didn't stop him.
Check out the best snippets of his GQ feature below.
Timberlake's thoughts on the Variety piece titled "Why Justin Timberlake Should Stop Acting."
"This face," he said, referring to his own."This recognizable face that you work so hard to get-not because you want the recognition but because you know you're made to do it...The movie didn't do well at the box office, so I should quit? Hold on a second. If I was somebody else, you wouldn't have said that. I have the number one album this week, and I shouldn't have released it? Come on, man. You sound like a dickhead.... It just shocked me because, like, you're trade magazines. None of your opinions count. And by the way, none of you can do it."
"It's a struggling city with a defeatist attitude. I'm from this town, and I grew up with a little bit of a chip on my shoulder, so sometimes I find it funny that I've been able to acquire the patience it takes to be kind to people in our business. Because sometimes I just want to fucking kill everybody."
Why the "Mirrors" singer is not "cool" no matter what anyone says.
"Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad."
"I've made a career out of doing things that I should not be doing. I wasn't cool about it," he said. "Because being cool would have meant I passed up on those opportunities. If you do that, it's because you're afraid. And what are you afraid of? You know?"
Check out GQ's full "Man of the Year" feature about Timberlake, click here.
