I’m an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick. I really haven’t had any time to rationalize it. But it’s nothing that I’m going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life.
HEATH LEDGERIt’s rare that there’s a role that requires an Australian accent.
More Heath Ledger Quotes
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I’m just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
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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 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 like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you’re forced into using your imagination. You don’t have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.
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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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See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.
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If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don’t grow.
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You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.
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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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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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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’m born to be a father. And I’ve been looking forward to this all my life.
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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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I apologize for my terrible interview skills.
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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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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 only do this because I’m having fun. The day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away.
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The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.
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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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Never give up on what makes you smile
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When I first started acting, I was just crap.
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I generally don’t think most situations can be labeled as black or white.
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I’m in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.
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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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Don’t let anyone ever make you feel you don’t deserve what you want.
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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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