Quotes By Heath Ledger

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

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

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

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

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.

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 didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood.

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.

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

I love acting and I have a lot of fun.

I don't know, as long as I get to evolve and grow as an actor and as a person, that's the stuff I'm after.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

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

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

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

I do keep pre-occupied.

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.

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