Heath Ledger Quotes

Never give up on what makes you smile

I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.

Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

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

The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.

Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?

The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.

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 not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.

I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.

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.

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.

My mom and my dad never pushed me into performing.

They never prohibited me from trying anything, or being anything. They never restricted me in any way. For which I'll be forever grateful.

The first memory I have, anyway, I guess - I think it was my second birthday and the cake came out with the candles and I was very excited and I was, like, "Oh! A cake!" and then my cousin blew out the candles. I was so disappointed. It just broke my heart. And so that's stamped in my brain.

I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.

Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

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!

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 apologize for my terrible interview skills.

I wasn't prepared to expose stories about something so special and wonderfully private that is happening in my life. I guess a part of me wishes that I'd never have to and that maybe I could protect this special time. I was dreaming.

If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.

Let's put a smile on that face!

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.

I'm an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick.

I really haven't had any time to rationalize it. But it's nothing that I'm going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life.

I'm born to be a father. And I've been looking forward to this all my life.

I'm very comfortable with horses. I love horses and I have grown up around farm-hands. There's something very universal about anyone who's on horseback night and day. When you get off that horse, you are still walking as if there's still a horse between your legs.

It's a little uncomfortable doing love scenes in armor, but, you know, when the heat's on, the heat's on.

A little fight in you. I like that.

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow simultaneously.

The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover.

Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever.

But the paparazzi are quite malicious and vocal and really rude, .

.. And they camped outside of my house, so I started throwing eggs at them, lobbing them at rocks next to them.

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

I apologize for my terrible interview skills.

I'm sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it's certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.

I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.

I like to do something I fear.

Some people just wanna see the world burn

You have to be willing to be manipulated in the first place because you can either recognize that in your director and then fight it because you don't trust them, but I'm not going to let them manipulate me. Or you think they're on to something and that they're manipulating something out of you which is interesting and new.

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.

If having true love and love that is expressive and free outside of work affects a project where you have to be restrained and in denial and fixed and closed off. This doesn't mean you go out and just destroy your love outside of your life and kind of mirror your movie.

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

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.

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.

I have never had great expectations of my performance or of a film.

I try not to think about the outcome. If you look that far ahead, it sort of taints your choices as an actor. I try as hard as I can to believe that no one is ever going to see it and that it's not even a movie. Then you can allow yourself to bare more. Then, once a project is done, I tend to forget about it until it comes out.