Heath Ledger Quotes

See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

Heath Ledger

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• I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • True
  • Me

• The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • American
  • Rest

• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Play
  • Scary
  • Emotions

• Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Lies
  • Living
  • Here

• It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Outfit
  • Compensate

• My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Son
  • Baby
  • Doing

• Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Own

• Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Past
  • Theatre

• Another friend began to say, 'Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he...' This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, 'I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him.'

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Society
  • Friend
  • Rest

• It is not a little Surprising that Christianity, whose chief excellence consists of softening the human heart, in cherishing and improving its finer Feelings, should encourage a Practice so totally repugnant to the first Impression of Right and Wrong. What adds to the wonder is that this Abominable Practice has been introduced in the most enlightened Ages.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Heart
  • Wonder
  • Practice

• From the development of the textile loom two centuries ago to today's Internet, output per hour has increased fifty fold.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Today

• I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Good
  • Soldier
  • Lazy

• I'm a very good screamer, that's for sure.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • Good

• When a fan buys a ticket for a cricket match or a movie, he is not worried about the colour, creed, or religion of the person sitting next to him. If you look at any actor's fan base in India, you will find that they are from different regions.

  

  Ajith Kumar
  • Different
  • Movie

• When you get scripts and you really enjoy reading them, you know it's a good project.

  

  Jodie Comer
  • Good
  • Reading

• Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

  

  Poppy Z. Brite
  • Food
  • Wish
  • Husband

• I had serious psoriasis as a child - it's strange that I make my living off my looks after years of looking like a monster.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Serious
  • Monster

• I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Monster

• Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights for strength, running for endurance, working on your technique. The second monster is your mental preparation-all our jabbering about humility, battling for your life, taking complete responsibility for the outcome. The last monster is your X Factor, your soul, your courage. Taken altogether, I call this three-headed monster the Process of Winning.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Winning
  • Humility
  • Monster

• I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Mother

• I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

  

  Andrew Wyeth
  • People

• See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Monster
  • Curve