Heath Ledger Quotes

I never really cared much for Hollywood or movies. But the curiosity for filmmaking, and expanding myself as an actor and my curiosity for people and portraying them, just has grown. And that's from simply being involved in the industry. But it was never a goal of mine as a kid.

Heath Ledger

• Movies
• Curiosity
• Hollywood
• Filmmaking

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• I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Music
  • Together

• It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Worry

• I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Looking

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Me

• Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Want
  • Change
  • Me

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

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Laws
  • Thinks
  • Who

• I personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.

  

  Gage Golightly
  • Work
  • Think
  • Actor

• The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Way
  • Focus

• 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

• I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy parents; it wasn't forced upon me. They just said, 'See if you like it. If you do, great; if you don't, don't worry about it.' I was really fortunate to have that guidance and supportive parents.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Small

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Play
  • Better
  • Choose

• Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Man
  • Voice
  • Give

• I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Always
  • Start
  • Size

• If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Life
  • Live
  • End

• 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

• I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Room

• The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Mistake

• I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Word
  • Curiosity
  • Governing

• I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Childhood
  • Curiosity
  • Ending

• Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.

  

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Alone

• I never really cared much for Hollywood or movies. But the curiosity for filmmaking, and expanding myself as an actor and my curiosity for people and portraying them, just has grown. And that's from simply being involved in the industry. But it was never a goal of mine as a kid.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Movies
  • Curiosity
  • Hollywood