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 LEDGERIt’s rare that there’s a role that requires an Australian accent.
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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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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 the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.
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My life is together, both professionally and socially.
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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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In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.
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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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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’m just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
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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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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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My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.
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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 have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.
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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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Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
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I believe that whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stronger.
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I apologize for my terrible interview skills.
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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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I’m born to be a father. And I’ve been looking forward to this all my life.
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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 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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Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair.
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See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.
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I feel like I’m wasting time if I repeat myself.
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