If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
HEATH LEDGERIt’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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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 my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.
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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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May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.
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I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.
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I feel like I’m wasting time if I repeat myself.
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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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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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When I first started acting, I was just crap.
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It’s odd, that’s why I don’t like telling people I played field hockey. It’s real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, ‘Oh, you girl!’
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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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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’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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I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.
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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 set up obstacles and defeat them.
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Don’t let anyone ever make you feel you don’t deserve what you want.
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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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Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
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Never give up on what makes you smile
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I am not a public speaker and never will be.
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I feel like I’ve never been in a film that people have liked before.
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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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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 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.
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I’m still a kid. I’m like six years old. But it’s just a matter of wanting to get up, it’s just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.
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