Heath Ledger Quotes

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

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

I apologize for my terrible interview skills.

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

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

I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices - it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath - someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

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.

A little fight in you. I like that.

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.

Let's put a smile on that face!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Never give up on what makes you smile

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'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.

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.

There is no Yoda-there's no one who points you in the right direction.

You've got to figure that out by yourself.

I do keep pre-occupied.

We're actors at the end of the day. I don't take it home with me. My experience outside of work, I love... when I hear wrap, it's the most exciting part of my day. I'm the first to have my make-up off, in the car, out. I've gotta go home. I want to get back to my life. I love it back there.

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.

I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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 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.

I only do this because I'm having fun.

The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away. I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again. I don't want to do this for the rest of my life. I don't. I don't even want to spend the rest of my youth doing this in this industry. There's so much more I want to discover.

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

My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.

Most of the time you don't even know they're there.

Now, that's the scary thing. It's really strange and invading, but I'm still working it all out. I try to not let it bother me. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do it. I certainly don't want to feel that I have to change everything in my life that I do to cater to them. I just won't let it happen.