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.
HEATH LEDGERIf 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.
More Heath Ledger Quotes
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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 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 believe that whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stronger.
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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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My life is together, both professionally and socially.
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May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.
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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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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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In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we’re useless!
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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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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’m kind of addicted to moving.
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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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You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.
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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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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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Growing up in Australia, you never feel like you’re going to live beyond that place. You wake up and you go to the beach, and you do your homework. You’re just a kid.
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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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The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.
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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 feel like I’m wasting time if I repeat myself.
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I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.
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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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In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.
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Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
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