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Heath Ledger in his own Words
TOoP/Bruce:
"I was obsessed with Monty Python films, The Life of Brian and The Holy Grail. My god, I so desperately wanted to be in that movie, I used to run around pretending I was one of the knights. And whilst shooting we were constantly quoting from his movies. But even since then I have loved his films; Baron Munchausen, Fear and Loathing, Fischer King and of course Brazil. He has been on the top of my list of directors I wanted to work with."
"Q; Which directors would you like to work with?
Heath Ledger: (laughs). I knew you would ask me that! Look, I couldn’t give you a list because it’s a really long list and half of them are dead."
"Q: You said earlier that you had this sense of your life speeding up. Did you mean professionally or because you are about to become a father?
Heath Ledger: I feel like with impending fatherhood life is going to speed up. I feel like from the day that happens it will go a lot faster. That’s why I’ve reminded myself to appreciate it (points to ‘old man river tattoo..’)."
MaineWriter:
This quote was in the very first post of Bruce's:
TOoP/Bruce:
"I've thrown an egg. Not at (the paparazzi) just kind of next to them so it splatters up against them."
"That's how pathetic it is. That's what we're reduced to. You can't actually stand up and slap them. When they kind of spy in on you and you're trying to like bathe out in the sun, and you're with your girlfriend and your friends and your family - it actually feels like you're getting a slap across the face.
"And we can't physically stand up and hit them back, of course - it would be rude and against the law. So you just get an egg."
TOoP/Bruce:
"I never went to acting school; I never had acting classes or lessons. And so for that reason, I’ve never had a dark room and a black pair of pajamas to walk around in and be creative and make mistakes in a dark room where no one can see you. All my mistakes are on film -- my growing process and learning process is documented. [Alonso laughs] And it always will be -- I want to keep on evolving from here. But yeah, I guess I did somewhat stumble into it. Before I got into the movies, I couldn’t care less about films; I’d barely seen any films. My curiosity about movies and making films kind of came upon making my first film, when I started making actual movies. That’s when the curiosity came. It certainly wasn’t before then -- my parents didn’t raise me on watching movies."
"Sydney is considered the gay capital of the world. But as you said too, we have a prime minister that’s… I don’t even want to go into it, but he’s definitely George Bush’s buddy. Unfortunately. So yeah, it is confusing. I think it’s like the red states in America, so to speak -- there’s definitely issues that they have, which I think are just issues that they have with themselves, obviously. I think it still exists in Australia too -- it’s just disguised better. It’s more passive, I think. It’s hard to answer for a nation."
"...it’s still a shame that you’re forced into studying accents, but there’s very few Australian parts. Actually, recently I just finished a movie in Australia called Candy, and it’s a love story between two Australian junkies, and that was the first time I could use my own accent in almost eight years. It was really liberating to just…I’d forgotten how free you are to just roam about with your voice and improvise and breathe in your actions and not be conscious of the words that are coming from your mouth. So that was fucking brilliant -- I really, really loved it. I’m gonna go back and do more for that reason; it was just so freeing."
"Having played Ennis, on the off chance that your child comes to you with the “Dad, I’m gay” speech, do you think you’re ready to hear it now?
Oh, it wouldn’t have bothered me beforehand. I don’t have a further appreciation for people who are gay; I always have. It’s never been an issue for me. Of course, if my child came to me and said that, I’d love them even more for being honest with me."
TOoP/Bruce:
Promoting "I'm not There"
“I feel the same way about everything I do. The day I say, ‘It’s good’ is the day I should start doing something else.”
“I think it’s one of those films that you have to kind of accept and invite instead of trying to challenge and solve." “Bob Dylan himself defies description, and I think Todd was aiming to represent him. He was not trying to sum him up or define him.”
“Some people find their shtick." “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.’”
“People always feel compelled to sum you up, to presume that they have you and can describe you. That’s fine. But there are many stories inside of me and a lot I want to achieve outside of one flat note.”
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