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.
HEATH LEDGERI’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!’
More Heath Ledger Quotes
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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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You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.
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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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It’s rare that there’s a role that requires an Australian accent.
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If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
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May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.
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I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.
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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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The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they’re dancing and singing. As long as you’re having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they’re gonna feel that.
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I like to do something I fear.
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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 generally don’t think most situations can be labeled as black or white.
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I’m not a big fan of western movies and I really don’t like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.
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The 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.
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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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