Quotes from Heath Ledger

When I'm not acting, I do like to take a year off at a time, at least if I can, just in order to keep acting exciting - otherwise I get bored very quickly.

I didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood.

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

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.

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.

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

I've never figured out who 'Heath Ledger' is on film: 'This is what you expect when you hire me, and it will be recognizable.'

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.

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

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'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 never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

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

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

My life is together, both professionally and socially.

Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.

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

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.

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.

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