Heath Ledger Quotes

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

There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or Terence [Howard]. They aren't better than me. We all do different things. It's more of a celebration of a lot of great work than to give the gold to somebody. The underappreciated factor certainly has gone away. ~ Jeff Daniels

It's a little uncomfortable doing love scenes in armor, but, you know, when the heat's on, the heat's on. ~ Heath Ledger

Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

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

It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself. ~ Heath Ledger

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

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. ~ Heath Ledger

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

I am not a public speaker and never will be. ~ Heath Ledger

It is very sad about Michael Jackson, much as in the tragic cases of Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole and other celebrities who have died are a result of drugs. It is always sad when such a bright light goes out. ~ Grace Park

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness. ~ Heath Ledger

I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief. ~ Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger was on the little glowing screen in front of me in his nurse's uniform, smoky eyes, and smeared lipstick, smirking as he set off bombs and burned the hospital down. ~ Cat Marnell

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

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

It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive. ~ Kara Swisher

My own feelings of where I am in this world and the questions that I am asking myself, I started to explore them through the story 'Four Feathers' and through this actor called Heath Ledger. I knew that I had to find a 21-year-old who could play wisdom at the end. He's only 21 or 22, and I tested him. ~ Shekhar Kapur

Rest in peace to Heath Ledger but I'm no joker ~ Drake

It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we're all too aware that they've passed. it underscores how we're mortal, and films are immortal (commenting on the death of Heath Ledger) ~ Leonard Maltin

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

…Heath Ledger once said to me, 'It's built you up to knock you down and that's all it is. ~ Susan Bernard

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

Madness, as you know. Is like Gravity. All it takes is a little push. ~ The Joker - Heath Ledger

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

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

I love acting and I have a lot of fun. ~ Heath Ledger

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

Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are? ~ The Joker Heath Ledger

If someone really takes a risk, it doesn't get dismissed. That's what happened when the Oscar was won posthumously by Heath Ledger, who did one of the definitive villain performances of all time. But it really has to be exceptional in defining everything we previously knew about the actress or the actor. ~ Robert Downey, Jr.

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

Nobody panics when things go "according to plan". Even if the plan is horrifying! ~ Heath Ledger

Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy. ~ Heath Ledger

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

CP,' she hissed, more urgently now. 'We're only pretending for goodness sake. Just pretend I'm Jakey G and you're Heath Ledger. Go for it! ~ Lola Salt

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting. ~ Heath Ledger

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

Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him. ~ Alex Ebert

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

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

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

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. ~ Heath Ledger

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

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

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them. ~ Heath Ledger

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.. ~ Heath Ledger

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

I have never had great expectations of my performance or of a film. I try not to think about the outcome. If you look that far ahead, it sort of taints your choices as an actor. I try as
hard as I can to believe that no one is ever going to see it and that it's not even a movie. Then you can allow yourself to bare more. Then, once a project is done, I tend to forget about it
until it comes out. ~ Heath Ledger

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

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white. ~ Heath Ledger

'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was. ~ Emile Hirsch

I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

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

My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into. ~ Heath Ledger

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

A little fight in you. I like that. ~ Heath Ledger

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

Heath [Ledger] would walk up to a horse and could like silence the horse. Just literally he'd be like, 'Shh. Shh.' And then he'd get on the horse. I'd be like, 'I'm going to get on you.' They'd be like, 'F - off!' I didn't really have that style. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

I apologize for my terrible interview skills. ~ Heath Ledger

My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young Heath Ledger. ~ Jonny Weston

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

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

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

I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

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

Heath Ledger is someone I know and would like to do a film with. ~ Shekhar Kapur

Heath Ledger died from the joker, so far the darkness killed him... but why we don't explore it? ~ Deyth Banger

I'm kind of addicted to moving. ~ Heath Ledger

'The Dark Knight,' for me, has the same problem that every other 'Batman' movie has. It's not about Batman. I think Heath Ledger is just phenomenal and the character of the Joker is beautifully written. He has a particular philosophy that he carries throughout the movie. He has one of the best bad guy schemes. ~ Joss Whedon

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself. ~ Heath Ledger

It's one of the most beautiful scripts [Brokeback Mountain] I've ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine - before we even shot the movie - and always sort of alluring to me. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

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? ~ Heath Ledger

[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

When I first started acting, I was just crap. ~ Heath Ledger

I do keep pre-occupied. ~ Heath Ledger

My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger! ~ Josh Hartnett

Let's put a smile on that face! ~ Heath Ledger

I believe whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you stranger. ~ The Joker Heath Ledger

Smile, because it confuses people. Smile, because it's easier than explaining what is killing you inside. ~ The Joker - Heath Ledger

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

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

I'm happy without money. ~ Heath Ledger

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

You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are. ~ The Joker Heath Ledger

Jump!" Kyntak yelled.
"What?" Six shouted incredulously. It was hundreds of meters to the concrete below.
"Just jump!" Kyntak howled, and he leaped off the fire escape.
With only a split second of hesitation, Six followed him. If all else fails, he thought, I can always land on Kyntak to break my fall. ~ Jack Heath

As I see it, I am not just in charge of food service; I am in charge of morale. ~ Chip Heath

He picked up his knife and started carving again. He concentrated on the lines and planes of the wood to keep his mind from wandering too far into the past.
He had his own wounds that refused to heal. ~ Lorraine Heath

We are used to the idea of giving witness to one's life as an important and noble counterpoint to being unheard, especially when applied to people in certain disadvantaged, oppressed or unacceptable situations. But in a slightly more pathological way, I'm not sure that we aren't seeing the emergence of a society in which almost everyone who isn't famous considers themselves cruelly and unfairly unheard. As though being famous, and the subject of wide attention, is considered to be a fulfilled human being's natural state - and so, as a corollary, the cruelly unheard millions are perpetually primed and fired up to answer any and all questions in order to redress this awful imbalance. ~ Chris Heath

Nature could be both wondrous and cruel, creating immense beauty and then offsetting it with ugliness. ~ Lorraine Heath

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure. ~ Edward Heath

When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman. ~ Margaret Thatcher

But brokenhearted was brokenhearted. Never embraced. Never treasured. Never easy. Heath figured every human being had a certain amount of God-ordained grace to endure their own unique brand of loss and pain. ~ Rachel Hauck

When I looked at my life's ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn't possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

My friendship with Jack remains strained. I want to believe that he was duped, but he has always been far too clever to fall for another man's ruse. So we have added yet one more thing to our relationship about which we never speak. Sometimes I think we will break beneath the weight of it, but on those occasions I have but to look at my wife in order to find the strength to carry on. I am determined to be worthy of her and that requires that I be a far stronger and better man than I had ever planned to be.
We see Frannie from time to time, not as often as we'd like unfortunately. She did eventually marry, but that is her story to tell.
Dear Frannie, darling Frannie.
She shall always remain the love of my youth, the one for whom I sold my soul to the devil. But Catherine, my beloved Catherine, shall always be the center of my heart, the one who, in the final hour, would not let the devil have me. ~ Lorraine Heath

When Sterling's eyesight did finally fail him completely, we were
up in years, content to sit in our garden and reflect on what a
wondrous and exciting life we'd led. He did not see my hair fade into
silver. For him it was always a vibrant red. I watched him age
gracefully and with dignity. He leaned on me much more than he
did his walking stick, which was how it should be, because when I
needed him most, he was always there for me. Each day I thought I
could love him no more than I already did - and the following
morning I was always proven wrong, for I awoke loving him just a
little bit more. ~ Lorraine Heath

Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality. ~ Lorraine Heath

[Therapist and friend, with a voice like Raul Julia during his Gomez Adam's days] Rudy studied my face, "I have a two o'clock open on Tuesday."
I sighed, "Yeah, ok. Tuesday at two."
He nodded, pleased. "Bring Starbucks."
"Sure, what do you want?"
"My usual. Iced half-caf ristretto quad grade two-pump raspberry two percent no whip light ice with caramel drizzle three-and-a-half-pump white mocha."
"Is any of that actually coffee?"
"More or less."
"And you think I'm damaged … ~ Jonathan Maberry

I fear you're correct there. Catherine warns me that he has the look of a scoundrel about him."
"Jack has told me that he's not going to let his daughter out of the house until she's forty. ~ Lorraine Heath

Early, I indentured myself to the five horizontal lines where black notes were written on a sheet of music. It is a place of world of signs and notations that speaks to me with perfect clarity. It is a place of time signatures, fermatas, ledger lines, grace notes, and demisemiquavers that are the common tongue and heritage of musicians all over the world ... It is something I cannot imagine being without. For without music, life is a journey through a desert that has not ever heard the rumor of God. In music's sweet harmony, I had all the proof I needed of a God who held the earth together between the staffs, where the heavens lay. Here, he marked all the lines and spaces with notes so perfect that they praised all of his creation with their beauty. ~ Pat Conroy

One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems. ~ Joseph Heath