Had I listened to my agent, I’d be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.
HEATH LEDGERI’m just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
More Heath Ledger Quotes
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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 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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Don’t let anyone ever make you feel you don’t deserve what you want.
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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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You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.
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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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I like to do something I fear.
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In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.
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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 feel like I’m wasting time if I repeat myself.
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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 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 have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.
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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 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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