Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian actor Heath Ledger.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian actor and music video director. After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career further. His work consisted of twenty films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Monster's Ball (2001), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Candy (2006), I'm Not There (2007), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), the latter two being posthumous releases. He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.
You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.
I do keep pre-occupied.
I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.
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.
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.
It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.
Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.
If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
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!'
I didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood.
In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.
I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.
I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.
When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.
I'm kind of addicted to moving.
I felt like my career was out of my hands.
I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.
I am not a public speaker and never will be.
I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.
I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.
I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.
I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.
I've never figured out who 'Heath Ledger' is on film: 'This is what you expect when you hire me, and it will be recognizable.'
I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.
When I first started acting, I was just crap.
I like to do something I fear.
I love acting and I have a lot of fun.
I want to do theatre. I love theatre.
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.
From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.
I don't know, as long as I get to evolve and grow as an actor and as a person, that's the stuff I'm after.
In a way, I was spoon-fed, if you will, a career. It was fully manufactured by a studio that believed that they could put me on their posters and turn me into their bottle of Coca-Cola, their product.
I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk.
I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.
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.
In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.
If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
I'm happy without money.
I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.
You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.
I apologize for my terrible interview skills.
My life is together, both professionally and socially.
I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.
It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.
There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm concerned.
When I'm not acting, I do like to take a year off at a time, at least if I can, just in order to keep acting exciting - otherwise I get bored very quickly.
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.
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.
If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.
See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.
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.
Never give up on what makes you smile
Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.
I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.
Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.
The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.
When anything is blocking my head or there's worry in my life, I just go sit on Mars or something and look back here at Earth. All you can see is this tiny speck. You don't see the fear. You don't see the pain. You don't see thought. It's just one solid speck. Then nothing really matters. It just doesn't.