Heath Ledger Quotes

I'm shy. People get confused. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. Why aren't you like this in normal life? Why can't you act in your social life? 'Because I can't!'

Heath Ledger

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• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
  • Stronger
  • Lead

• Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • People
  • Food
  • Mexican

• I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Parents
  • Attention
  • Child

• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Acting is a form of confession.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Acting
  • Form
  • Confession

• The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • Character
  • Ambition
  • First

• Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Look
  • Values

• I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • People
  • Different
  • Success

• I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Dumb

• It is evident that the grip of 'The Return of the King' on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One Ring exerts over Frodo: it's tough for him to let go, which is why the picture feels as if it has an excess of endings. But he can be forgiven. Why not allow him one last extra bow?

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Why
  • Picture
  • King

• The opportunity here in the U.S. is so unique because we are so diverse, with so many different cultures living together. Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists, all with their own connections to the spiritual aspects of food and with lessons that we can learn from each other.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Different
  • Together
  • Opportunity

• When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

  

  Beth Riesgraf
  • Travel

• We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

  

  Buenaventura Durruti
  • Earth
  • Doubt

• I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

  

  David Mitchell
  • Work
  • Book

• Americans were outraged and horrified by this president's reckless spending and his endless assaults on the Constitution, but no issue drove them to rise up and fight back like Obamacare - both the abominable legislative monstrosity itself and the tyrannical, corrupt manner by which Obama crammed it through the legislative process.

  

  David Limbaugh
  • Up

• I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

  

  Katherine Moennig
  • Everyday

• Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney.

  

  Bob Iger
  • Giving
  • Running
  • Disney

• Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Together
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Done

• I'm shy. People get confused. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. Why aren't you like this in normal life? Why can't you act in your social life? 'Because I can't!'

  

  Heath Ledger
  • People
  • Actor
  • Screen