I am not a public speaker and never will be.
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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See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.
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I’m born to be a father. And I’ve been looking forward to this all my life.
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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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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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It’s rare that there’s a role that requires an Australian accent.
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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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Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
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I’m in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.
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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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You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.
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A little fight in you. I like that.
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I generally don’t think most situations can be labeled as black or white.
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May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.
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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 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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