Top 87 Heath Ledger Quotes
#3. Nobody panics when things go "according to plan". Even if the plan is horrifying!
Heath Ledger
#4. I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.
Heath Ledger
#5. I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk.
Heath Ledger
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.
Heath Ledger
#10. [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.
Heath Ledger
#11. 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.
Heath Ledger
#12. I'm born to be a father. And I've been looking forward to this all my life.
Heath Ledger
#13. I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.
Heath Ledger
#15. I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.
Heath Ledger
#16. 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
#17. It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.
Heath Ledger
#18. 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
#19. In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.
Heath Ledger
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.
Heath Ledger
#23. 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.
Heath Ledger
#25. I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.
Heath Ledger
#26. 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
#27. The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules!
Heath Ledger
#28. I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.
Heath Ledger
#30. I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
Heath Ledger
#31. My life is together, both professionally and socially.
Heath Ledger
#32. [The Joker is a] psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy ... Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.
Heath Ledger
#33. I am not a public speaker and never will be.
Heath Ledger
#34. You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.
Heath Ledger
#35. I felt like my career was out of my hands.
Heath Ledger
#36. 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.
Heath Ledger
#37. In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.
Heath Ledger
#38. I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.
Heath Ledger
#39. I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.
Heath Ledger
#42. 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.
Heath Ledger
#43. 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.
Heath Ledger
#44. 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.'
Heath Ledger
#46. I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.
Heath Ledger
#47. 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.
Heath Ledger
#48. If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
Heath Ledger
#49. I didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood.
Heath Ledger
#50. It's a little uncomfortable doing love scenes in armor, but, you know, when the heat's on, the heat's on.
Heath Ledger
#51. 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
#53. 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.
Heath Ledger
#54. It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.
Heath Ledger
#55. I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.
Heath Ledger
#57. 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
#58. 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.
Heath Ledger
#59. 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
#60. There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm concerned.
Heath Ledger
#61. If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
Heath Ledger
#62. 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.
Heath Ledger
#63. From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.
Heath Ledger
#64. When I first started acting, I was just crap.
Heath Ledger
#65. You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.
Heath Ledger
#66. 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
#67. 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.
Heath Ledger
#68. I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.
Heath Ledger
#69. I apologize for my terrible interview skills.
Heath Ledger
#70. My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.
Heath Ledger
#71. 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!'
Heath Ledger
#72. I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.
Heath Ledger
#73. 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.
Heath Ledger
#74. I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.
Heath Ledger
#75. 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
#76. I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.
Heath Ledger
#77. Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want..
Heath Ledger
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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.
Heath Ledger
#81. 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.
Heath Ledger
#83. 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
#84. 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.
Heath Ledger
#85. Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.
Heath Ledger
#86. 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
#87. 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
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
