I wasn’t going to have fun doing a teen movie again.
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More Heath Ledger Quotes
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I never want to feel like I’ve achieved my goal. It’s like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it’s a good season. They feel like they’ll be punished.
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In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we’re useless!
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I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. I don’t have a day planner and I don’t have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.
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I feel like I’ve never been in a film that people have liked before.
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I’ve never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I’m just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.
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I’m kind of addicted to moving.
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Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair.
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I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you’re forced into using your imagination. You don’t have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.
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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’m in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.
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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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I didn’t want to raise my child in Hollywood.
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I only do this because I’m having fun. The day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away.
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It’s odd, that’s why I don’t like telling people I played field hockey. It’s real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, ‘Oh, you girl!’
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I apologize for my terrible interview skills.
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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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I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.
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If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don’t grow.
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I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.
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I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices – it reflects on who I am.
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I like to do something I fear.
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It’s kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn’t be doing it and I don’t know how to do it and I’m going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.
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You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.
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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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Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
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Don’t let anyone ever make you feel you don’t deserve what you want.
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