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.
HEATH LEDGERI’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.
More Heath Ledger Quotes
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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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If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
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When I first started acting, I was just crap.
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Had I listened to my agent, I’d be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.
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I feel like I’ve never been in a film that people have liked before.
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I’m kind of addicted to moving.
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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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There’s nothing like working with your mates – it’s the way it should be, as far as I’m concerned.
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I believe that whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stronger.
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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 born to be a father. And I’ve been looking forward to this all my life.
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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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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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See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.
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I am not a public speaker and never will be.
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I apologize for my terrible interview skills.
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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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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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People generally express more in between their sentences when they’re not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they’re feeling.
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If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don’t grow.
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In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.
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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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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 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 like to do something I fear.
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Never give up on what makes you smile
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