Heath Ledger Quotes

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

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• I want to resume the life of a shy person.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Want
  • Resume

• I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Laws
  • Thinks
  • Who

• I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • God
  • Human
  • King

• It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Important
  • Character
  • War

• All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Trust
  • Creator
  • Teaches

• I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Mother
  • Passion
  • Courage

• I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.

  

  Vanity
  • Career
  • Singing
  • Chance

• 'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Great
  • Money
  • Society

• Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Trying
  • Sex

• I live and die by puns.

  

  Feist
  • Live
  • Die
  • Puns

• Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Time
  • Music
  • American

• I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Hair
  • Thought

• I'm pretty much in love with 'Adult Swim.'

  

  T-Pain
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Swim

• My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Dad
  • More

• I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • American
  • Bad
  • Proud

• The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • God
  • Bones
  • Amused

• Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Church
  • State
  • Thomas Jefferson

• Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.

  

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke
  • World
  • Language
  • Consciousness

• Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

  

  Roland Gift Fine Young Cannibals
  • Failure
  • Managers
  • Record Company

• If you take a movie like Easy Rider which everyone counts as the beginning of New Hollywood, that is a big movement. And then, when you really dissect that film and the people that were behind that movie, you realize that it has Roger Corman written all over it. Easy Rider is a hybrid film, taking The Trip and The Wild Angels and making a new explosion. And the people that were making it, guess what, they were all people who had worked with Roger Corman.

  

  Alex Stapleton
  • Movie
  • Movement
  • Hollywood

• 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
  • Hollywood
  • Agents
  • Managers