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.
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 think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.
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Don’t let anyone ever make you feel you don’t deserve what you want.
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I believe that whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stronger.
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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 only do this because I’m having fun. The day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away.
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You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.
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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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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 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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Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.
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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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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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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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If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don’t grow.
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My mom and my dad never pushed me into performing. They never prohibited me from trying anything, or being anything. They never restricted me in any way. For which I’ll be forever grateful.
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I wasn’t going to have fun doing a teen movie again.
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My life is together, both professionally and socially.
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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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In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.
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Never give up on what makes you smile
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I didn’t want to raise my child in Hollywood.
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I’m kind of addicted to moving.
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I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.
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I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.
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It’s a little uncomfortable doing love scenes in armor, but, you know, when the heat’s on, the heat’s on.
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