Heath Ledger was the legendary Australian actor who moved to the United States in 1998 to pursue his acting career. His dreams turned into reality as he quickly made a name for himself and became a respected actor at the top of his game.
Heath Ledgers films included:
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- The Patriot
- A Knight’s Tale
- Brokeback Mountain
- The Dark Knight
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Tragically, Ledger’s career was cut short as he died on 22 January 2008 at the young age of 28.
A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his critically acclaimed and most famous role as the Joker in The Dark Knight.
At the time of his death, The Dark Knight was in post-production, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, in which he was giving his last performance was in the middle of filming. The production was temporarily suspended and Ledger’s role was recast with Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell.
Heath Ledger left behind his beautiful daughter Matilda Rose that he shared with actress Michelle Williams. But he also left behind iconic performances and influential wisdom that will live on for many years to come.
To celebrate his life we’ve put together 28 uplifting Heath Ledger quotes on friends, life, and love.
Heath Ledger Quotes:
1. “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.” – Heath Ledger
2. “Don’t let anyone ever make you feel you don’t deserve what you want.” – Heath Ledger
3. “From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.” – Heath Ledger
4. “When anything is blocking my head or there’s worry in my life, I just go sit on Mars or something and look back here at Earth. All you can see is this tiny speck. You don’t see the fear. You don’t see the pain. You don’t see thought. It’s just one solid speck. Then nothing really matters. It just doesn’t.” – Heath Ledger
5. “I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.” – Heath Ledger
6. “When 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.” – Heath Ledger
7. ” Never give up on what makes you smile. ” – Heath Ledger
8. “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!” – Heath Ledger
9. ” No amount of money changes what I do between ‘Action’ and ‘Cut’.” – Heath Ledger
10. ” There is no Yoda-there’s no one who points you in the right direction. You’ve got to figure that out by yourself.” – Heath Ledger
11. ” 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.” – Heath Ledger
12. ” If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.” – Heath Ledger
13. ” I didn’t want to raise my child in Hollywood.” – Heath Ledger
14. ” If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don’t grow.” – Heath Ledger
15. ” 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.” – Heath Ledger
16. ” 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.” – Heath Ledger
17. ” I generally don’t think most situations can be labeled as black or white.” – Heath Ledger
18. ” I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow simultaneously.” – Heath Ledger
19. ” I thought I need to be more cautious about my choices – it reflects on who I am.” – Heath Ledger
20. ” I like to do something I fear.” – Heath Ledger
21. ” 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.” – Heath Ledger
22. ” The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.” – Heath Ledger
23. ” There’s nothing like working with your mates – it’s the way it should be, as far as I’m concerned.” – Heath Ledger
24. ” 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.” – Heath Ledger
25. ” 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!'” – Heath Ledger
26. ” I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.” – Heath Ledger
27. ” 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.” – Heath Ledger
28. ” 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.” – Heath Ledger
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