Heath Ledger Quotes

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

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• 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

• In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Family
  • Born
  • Far

• 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

• If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Man
  • Suffering
  • Really

• 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

• I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

  

  T.I.
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Use

• 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

• These machines keep us alive, while other machines are coming to kill us. Interesting, isn't it? The power to give life, and the power to end it

  

  Anthony Zerbe
  • Alive
  • Kill
  • Machines

• The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

  

  Bob Jones, Sr.
  • God
  • Independent
  • Kill

• The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Tree

• We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Work
  • Future
  • Democracy

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

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Kill
  • Stranger