87 Insightful Quotes By Heath Ledger, The Man Who Left A Powerful Legacy
Despite his relatively short career in the industry and untimely death in 2008, Oscar-winning actor Heath Ledger is generally counted as one of the greats of all time. He was a true intellectual with developed artistic sensibilities. He was also exceptionally self-aware. He knew his abilities and limitations and acknowledged that his career had been spoon-fed to him by studio executives. Forgoing the desire to look back into the past or gaze forward into the future, he lived in the present. He often took long breaks between jobs, so he could maintain his excitement about acting. We have collected several of his quotes from archived interviews and articles. Here are some of the things he has to say on people. Choices, future, money, happiness, love, family and life in general.
Don't ever let anyone make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.
Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.
It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.
If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.
From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.
Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
I am not a public speaker and never will be.
Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.
Growing up in Australia, you never feel like you're going to live beyond that place. You wake up and you go to the beach, and you do your homework. You're just a kid.
The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.
Wen I die, my money is not gonna come with me. My movies will live on for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious and keep smiling like the joker
Never give up on what makes you smile
I apologize for my terrible interview skills.
If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.
It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that - the life you want to lead - eventually you'll probably get there.
Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair.
When I first started acting, I was just crap.
The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.
In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!
The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.
Some people just wanna see the world burn
Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!
My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.
If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.
I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.
I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.
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!'
I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.
