Quotes from Hugh Jackman

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

I would love to have a robot at home.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

By nature I'm not a brooder.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

When your dreams becoming reality, they're no longer your dreams.

I'm not a loner at all.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.