Latest Heath Ledger Quotes from Interviews

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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!'

  Heath Ledger

  Confused, Thinking, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". NY Post, www.imdb.com. 2001.

• We're actors at the end of the day. I don't take it home with me. My experience outside of work, I love... when I hear wrap, it's the most exciting part of my day. I'm the first to have my make-up off, in the car, out. I've gotta go home. I want to get back to my life. I love it back there.

  Heath Ledger

  Home, Car, The End Of The Day

  Source: blankonblank.org

• If having true love and love that is expressive and free outside of work affects a project where you have to be restrained and in denial and fixed and closed off. This doesn't mean you go out and just destroy your love outside of your life and kind of mirror your movie.

  Heath Ledger

  Mean, Mirrors, And Love

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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.

  Heath Ledger

  People, Feelings, Disguise

  Source: blankonblank.org

• I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.

  Heath Ledger

  Believe, Acting, Belief

  Source: blankonblank.org

• My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.

  Heath Ledger

  Energy, Nervous, Form

  Source: blankonblank.org

• You have to be willing to be manipulated in the first place because you can either recognize that in your director and then fight it because you don't trust them, but I'm not going to let them manipulate me. Or you think they're on to something and that they're manipulating something out of you which is interesting and new.

  Heath Ledger

  Fighting, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: blankonblank.org

• 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.

  Heath Ledger

  Sports, Running, Race

• I never really cared much for Hollywood or movies. But the curiosity for filmmaking, and expanding myself as an actor and my curiosity for people and portraying them, just has grown. And that's from simply being involved in the industry. But it was never a goal of mine as a kid.

  Heath Ledger

  Kids, People, Goal

• 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.

  Heath Ledger

  Mom, Dad, Grateful

• 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.

  Heath Ledger

  Sarcastic, Thinking, America

  "Remembering Heath Ledger" by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 23, 2008.

• 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.

  Heath Ledger

  Beach, Growing Up, Kids

  "Remembering Heath Ledger" by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 23, 2008.

• 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!

  Heath Ledger

  Stupid, Mean, Men

  "Remembering Heath Ledger" by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 23, 2008.

• I'm born to be a father. And I've been looking forward to this all my life.

  Heath Ledger

  Father, Looking Forward, Born

  "Remembering Heath Ledger" by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 23, 2008.

• I'm very comfortable with horses. I love horses and I have grown up around farm-hands. There's something very universal about anyone who's on horseback night and day. When you get off that horse, you are still walking as if there's still a horse between your legs.

  Heath Ledger

  Horse, Night, Hands

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.

  Heath Ledger

  Cowboy, Fans, Bigs

  Source: movieweb.com

• 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.

  Heath Ledger

  Expectations, My Thoughts, Plague

  "Heath Ledger on 'Candy'". Interview With Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. November 29, 2006.

• I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow simultaneously.

  Heath Ledger

  Running, Thinking, Hands

  "Heath Ledger on 'Candy'". Interview With Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. November 29, 2006.

• There is no Yoda-there's no one who points you in the right direction. You've got to figure that out by yourself.

  Heath Ledger

  Figures, Right Direction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Heath Ledger

  Alcohol, Drug, Inspire

• 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.

  Heath Ledger

  Imagination, Scratches, Film

  "Heath Ledger on 'Candy'". Interview With Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. November 29, 2006.

• I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

  Heath Ledger

  Art, Thinking, Alcohol

  "Heath Ledger on 'Candy'". Interview With Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. November 29, 2006.

• The first memory I have, anyway, I guess - I think it was my second birthday and the cake came out with the candles and I was very excited and I was, like, "Oh! A cake!" and then my cousin blew out the candles. I was so disappointed. It just broke my heart. And so that's stamped in my brain.

  Heath Ledger

  Cousin, Memories, Heart