I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.
HEATH LEDGERThe Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I’m serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever.
More Heath Ledger Quotes
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When I first started acting, I was just crap.
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My life is together, both professionally and socially.
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Don’t let anyone ever make you feel you don’t deserve what you want.
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I’m sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it’s certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.
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It’s like anything in life, visualizing the old man you’re going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that – the life you want to lead – eventually you’ll probably get there.
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If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.
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I’m just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
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Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
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The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We’re not running the same race. It’s like we’re all doing different sports in fact.
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But the paparazzi are quite malicious and vocal and really rude, … And they camped outside of my house, so I started throwing eggs at them, lobbing them at rocks next to them.
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I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow simultaneously.
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I’m shy. People get confused. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. Why aren’t you like this in normal life? Why can’t you act in your social life? ‘Because I can’t!’
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I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.
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A little fight in you. I like that.
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In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.
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