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.
HEATH LEDGERThe 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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I’m born to be a father. And I’ve been looking forward to this all my life.
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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 feel like I’m wasting time if I repeat myself.
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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’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 am not a public speaker and never will be.
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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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My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.
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It’s rare that there’s a role that requires an Australian accent.
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I apologize for my terrible interview skills.
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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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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 have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.
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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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