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Heath Ledger in his own Words

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TOoP/Bruce:
"I never have great expectations of my performance or the film. I try not to think about the outcome. I think that if you look that far ahead, it sort of taints your choices as an actor. I kind of try as hard as I can to believe that no one is ever going to see it and that it's not even a movie, and then you can allow yourself to bare more."

TOoP/Bruce:
"It's hard to really explain to you why or how you chose a role. You just read it and you either get it or you don't. There are things inside of you that can understand or observe and you feel like you have something to give to that story or that character or you don't. It's very easy to sort of sit here and intellectualize it, but it's really kind of left up to the Gods. It just feels right or it doesn't. That's probably the best way I can describe it."

TOoP/Bruce:
So I apologize for the bad discoveries made along the way, but I do stand by the theory that in order to evolve and further yourself as an actor you have to be fearless enough to allow yourself room for error. 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:
"You know, I didn’t really like where I was heading. And I didn’t, I hadn’t, I didn’t really have a choice of that in the beginning. So it was either follow it or follow someone else’s dream, or stop it and follow your own. And it’s hard, it’s tough but it’s worth it, it really is. And it’s paid off."

j.U.d.E.:
BRUCE, this thread is wonderful! Thank you!

"..follow your own [dream]..."!

j.U.d.E.

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