Heath Ledger Quotations

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.

There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm concerned.

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

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.

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.

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

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.

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 generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.

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.

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.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk.

I love acting and I have a lot of fun.

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!'

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.

It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.

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.'

In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.

It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

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.

My life is together, both professionally and socially.

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.

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.

In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.

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.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

I didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood.

I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I am not a public speaker and never will be.

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

So hopefully that (situation) will continue and I won't have to come back, ... I would much rather work in Europe than America.

I have kind of been living out of bags for the past 13 years. I will just stick to that, ... Home is, like, Earth. I don't care where I land. I am actually thinking of going to live in Italy. The food and the wine are great there. That's it really.

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

but that is also what makes it exciting.

I wasn't prepared to expose stories about something so special and wonderfully private that is happening in my life. I guess a part of me wishes that I'd never have to and that maybe I could protect this special time. I was dreaming.

Thousands of women were falling in love with him all the time. So when he finally finds a woman who isn't attracted to any of that, that's what really devastates him, and interests him.

I was really lucky that my character was uncomfortable with it and knew it too. So I could use my own level of discomfort, because it was new and strange for me, and that worked for me.

My character was extremely lonely and I think I carried that feeling through the whole filming experience.

We were trying to contrast each other a little bit. We wanted to present different qualities as brothers, but also have similarities ... like the fact that we wouldn't stand with these brave faces in the face of danger. We would scream like little girls, cower and run away.

Working in Venice was like a four-month guided tour of the city. It was like shooting a film inside a museum.

was a very lonely experience, but it was supposed to be.

I sort of took my career and destroyed it,

This felt like something that hadn't been done.

This is a fairytale version, ... They're con men.

I had such a great experience with Terry on The Brothers Grimm that I vowed I'd look for other roles and films that would challenge me and offer me roles I'd never tackled before. I really wanted to stretch myself as an actor.

I flipped through his journals and then it was (history) out the window, ... We were making it into a romp. We wanted to have a clean slate and just have fun.

I flipped through his journals and then it was (history) out the window. We were making it into a romp. We wanted to have a clean slate and just have fun.

It took a delicate man to tell this story, and that's you.

It was like shooting a movie inside a museum.

It was an opportunity not to take acting too seriously. We obviously weren't taking Casanova too seriously. Essentially we were borrowing his name and his legend and just having fun with it.

And I love Matt and I loved working with him, ... He's a generous person, he's a generous actor, and (smirking) he's a fantastic tango dancer.

It's the most exciting time of my life,

throwing eggs at them. I purposely don't hit anybody because they'd turn around and sue me. I was lobbing the eggs at the rocks next to them. It's all you can do.

Casanova was a person who really fell in love with every woman, as opposed to Don Juan, ... I also have an appreciation for love -- just not that many.

I felt this was such a refreshing story of love. For me, our characters were also complex, and to...really investigate this form of humanity and expression of love was an opportunity that I hadn't had.

I believe whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stranger.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I like to do something I fear.

Most of the time you don't even know they're there. Now, that's the scary thing. It's really strange and invading, but I'm still working it all out. I try to not let it bother me. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do it. I certainly don't want to feel that I have to change everything in my life that I do to cater to them. I just won't let it happen.

Never give up on what makes you smile

May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.

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.

[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.

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

The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules!

I apologize for my terrible interview skills. I wasn't prepared to expose stories about something so special and wonderfully private that is happening in my life. I guess a part of me wishes that I'd never have to and that maybe I could protect this special time. I was dreaming.

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.

Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

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.

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.

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

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.

Some people just wanna see the world burn

I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices - it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath - someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts

I'm kind of addicted to moving.

I apologize for my terrible interview skills.

Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, 'why so serious?' He comes at me with the knife. 'Why so serious?!'. He sticks the blade in my mouth. 'Let's put a smile on that face!' And why so serious?

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.

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.

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.

Let's put a smile on that face!