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!’
HEATH LEDGERI like to do something I fear.
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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You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.
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If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don’t grow.
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In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by 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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I’m kind of addicted to moving.
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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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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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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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Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
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I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.
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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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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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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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