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Heath Ledger in his own Words
tamarack:
--- Quote from: white_angel on February 22, 2008, 06:18:28 am ---
Sometimes you must scream out loud in order to discover a whisper.
Heath's speech at the Santa Barbara Film Festival:
. Sometimes you must scream out loud in order to discover a whisper. So I thank all these beautiful minds and... (I missed a part here) for putting up with my screams, and I thank everyone for their patience in waiting for me to find the whisper within the words. And here's to making more mistakes."
Clear audio of Heath voice"
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20173623,00.html
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This seems to be the missing part to the speech above:
"Sometimes you must scream out loud in order to discover how to whisper. I thank all of these beautiful minds and these wonderful crews around them in the past years for putting up with my screams and I thank everyone for their patience in waiting for me to find the whisper within the words. And here's to making more mistakes."
TOoP/Bruce:
“I went to Guildford Grammar back in Perth. It was kind of like a military school. If you did cadets, you had to wear a uniform. But I didn’t want to fight. I thought it was strange that they were teaching kids to shoot automatic weapons at 16. If you didn’t do that, they made you play sports. So I played a lot of field hockey.… And cricket. And Australian-rules football. But I played them all just to get out of cadets. I mean, who wants to shoot an automatic rifle? What the fuck was I going to use that for?”
TOoP/Bruce:
Congratulations on becoming a father! But we have to say we never imagined you as a dad.
Well, it’s definitely my greatest achievement. I now feel connected to something a lot bigger than me. And it’s beautiful. I’m born to be a father, really! I’ve been looking forward to this all my life. And unlike my character in Brokeback, I’m very expressive, and in touch with love. And my girls.
Yes, we hear you‘re spending a lot of time being a helpful hubby.
Yeah, happily! What else am I gonna do? After the birthing process, I realized how stupid and weak men are. I might as well not have been in there, I was that useless! So now I’m at home doing dishes.
You and Michelle play a couple that’s drifting apart in the movie, but you were falling in love in real life. How strange was that?
If anything, it just made it all the more interesting. I think it would have been boring if we were falling in love on screen. It would have been easy and obvious. We were working against the odds! What happened between us was out of our control. It was just something very beautiful and deep.
Although you marry Michelle’s character, I’s Jack (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) who you really fall in love with. Jake said kissing you was a very ‘exfoliating’ experience.
Um… yeah. I mean, it was certainly…. Rough!
Ang Lee said your concern about getting intimate with Jake made your performances more real.
Yeah. He’s right. I was a virgin to the situation, like my character was. So I kind of just used that. I was like, why hide it, when this is what it should be?
Aloysius J. Gleek:
I love this image. Two beautiful faces filled with light.
(And such a snazzy scarf! So Heathen.)
Thanks, Bruce.
:)
TOoP/Bruce:
"I take great pride in my soul, and the consistency and longevity of my love."
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