Heath Ledger Quotes

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

Heath Ledger

• Kill
• Stranger

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Time
  • School
  • Game

• I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Choices

• Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Life
  • Work
  • Story

• On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try to have a good connection with the actor that I'm filming. Even a guy who's there with two lines of dialogue, I always try to have a connection with the guy I'm filming, just to make it into a nice, enjoyable moment.

  

  Quentin Dupieux
  • Good
  • Different
  • Guy

• With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Impossible

• It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes.

  

  William Kent Krueger
  • People
  • Cleaning
  • Mess

• She only knows headfirst. Shelley knows one way to play, and that's full speed.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Way
  • Play
  • Shelley

• Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Values
  • Wells
  • Dignity

• To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Book
  • Hand
  • Read

• I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Poet

• They’re writing what we’re all living, you ’d have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to see the drama in the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East.

  

  Alex Gansa
  • Writing
  • Living
  • Blind

• Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Women
  • Children
  • Moral

• Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Action
  • Years
  • Difficult

• Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Sound
  • Jazz
  • Female

• I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Kill
  • Stranger