Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > Heath Ledger Remembrance Forum
Heath Ledger in his own Words
TOoP/Bruce:
“Finding a balance is difficult,” he said. “It’s heartbreaking in a sense. The inconsistency of your social life, clocking in and checking in with your friends and getting back a routine with your family. Then that just being chopped off with three weeks going to London, work through Christmas, go to Vancouver. Then work through to March. Then take off to Austin, Texas, to work there for three months. You are away from everyone, and everything, for seven months. You come back and try to rekindle it again, only to have it taken away a year later. It can be really tiring. It can be really lonely. It can be all these things, but we still do it. It’s what we love.”
TOoP/Bruce:
“It's a beautiful love story."
“There's not a lot of mystery to love stories anymore, and this obviously is a little bit more dynamic than the usual love story.”
“It spans over twenty years and it's Ang Lee, who I can truly believe and entrust this story in his hands."
“At the same time, it scares the shit out of me. I'm frightened of it and so, for that reason, I should confront my fears; I think that you are rewarded for being brave in more ways than one.”
“I’m not ‘frightened’ like I won't let myself out of my house. The fear is in the level of performance and what I have to portray and what I have to feel and the level of the workload, and the pressure of having to perform for such a wonderful director. That's something that inspires you to perform.”
“It brings a level of importance to what you're doing because you're afraid of it, and so, you give it a lot of your time and you give it a lot of your effort to make it good.”
TOoP/Bruce:
On singer Nick Drake:
“I was obsessed with his story and his music and I pursued it for a while and still have hopes to kind of tell his story one day.”
TOoP/Bruce:
On "10 Things I Hate about You":
"I was a young kid from Australia, and that was the only movie someone was willing to put me in, so what do you do?"
"You've got to start somewhere. I just didn't want to stay there."
TOoP/Bruce:
On getting closer to his co-star Michelle Williams on the set of Brokeback Mountain:
"On the 5th take, Michelle and I [are] tobogganing down the hill... And Michelle...twisted her knee – she was pretty much on crutches for the rest of the shoot. And I felt I always had to look after her after that."
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