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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More Heath Ledger Quotes
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Never give up on what makes you smile
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My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.
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I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.
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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 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.
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The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.
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Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
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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’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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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When I first started acting, I was just crap.
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If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
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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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It’s rare that there’s a role that requires an Australian accent.
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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 feel like I’m wasting time if I repeat myself.
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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 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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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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