92+ Best Heath Ledger Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian actor, photographer, and music video director. He is best known for his moving and intense performances in diverse roles. Profoundly inspirational Heath Ledger quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

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Famous Heath Ledger Quotes

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

Madness, as you know, is like gravity ⁠ All it takes is a little push! Heath Ledger

Don’t let anyone ever make you feel you don’t deserve what you want. Heath Ledger

You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with! Nothing to do with all your strength! Heath Ledger

Never give up on what makes you smile. Heath Ledger

If you’re good at something, never do it for free. Heath Ledger

When anything is blocking my head or there’s a 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

It’s not about Money it’s about sending a message. Everything burns! Heath Ledger

If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices. Heath Ledger

Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair! Heath Ledger

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness. Heath Ledger

You see, I’m a guy of simple taste. I enjoy dynamite, and gunpowder, and gasoline! Heath Ledger

I believe that whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stranger. Heath Ledger

We really should stop this fighting, otherwise we’ll miss the fireworks! Heath Ledger

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don’t grow. Heath Ledger

I believe that whatever doesn’t kill you simply makes you stranger. Heath Ledger

Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just do things. Heath Ledger

I like to do something I fear. Heath Ledger

The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules. Heath Ledger

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

It’s funny, when I was a little boy, and told people I was going to be a comedian, everyone laughed at me. Well, no one’s laughing now. Heath Ledger

I’m still a kid. I’m six years old. But it’s just a matter of wanting to get up, it’s just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am. Heath Ledger

You become very dangerous once you learn to control your feeling. Heath Ledger

You have to be willing to be manipulated in the first place because you can either recognize that in your director and then fight it because you don’t trust them, but I’m not going to let them manipulate me. Or you think they’re on to something and that they’re manipulating something out of you which is interesting and new. Heath Ledger

You are not sorry that you did it, you are sorry that I found it. Heath Ledger

Some people just wanna see the world burn. Heath Ledger

For my whole life, I didn’t know if I even really existed. But I do, and people are starting to notice. Heath Ledger

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

I used to think my life was a tragedy, but now I realize it’s a comedy. Heath Ledger

Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying! Heath Ledger

I am not someone who is loved. I’m an idea. A state of mind. Heath Ledger

Let’s put a smile on that face! Heath Ledger

I now do what other people only dream. I make art until someone dies. See? I am the world’s first fully functioning homicidal artist. Heath Ledger

You know, I’m not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood particularly agents and managers they’re all in a hurry. Heath Ledger

I’ve been using it as a journal, but also as a joke diary, if I have any thoughts or frustrations. I think I told you, I’m pursuing a career in standup comedy. Heath Ledger

I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I’m not supernatural. I’ve done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it’s happened to hundreds of people before me. Heath Ledger

The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction that somehow, somewhere, all of this makes sense! That’s what cracks me up each time! Heath Ledger

I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts. Heath Ledger

Someday someone will break you so badly that you’ll become unbreakable. Heath Ledger

The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We’re not running the same race. It’s like we’re all doing different sports in fact. Heath Ledger

Confuse them with your silence, shock them with your action. Heath Ledger

I generally don’t think most situations can be labeled as black or white. Heath Ledger

Haven’t you ever heard of the healing power of laughter? Heath Ledger

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

Parting is such sweet sorrow, dearest. Still, you can’t say we didn’t show you a good time. Enjoy yourself out there in the asylum. Just don’t forget if it ever gets too tough there’s always a place for you here. Heath Ledger

I’ve never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I’m just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it. Heath Ledger

Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But, as my plastic surgeon always said if you gotta go, go with a smile. Heath Ledger

The first memory I have, anyway, I guess I think it was my second birthday and the cake came out with the candles and I was very excited and I was, like, Oh! A cake! and then my cousin blew out the candles. I was so disappointed. It just broke my heart. And so that’s stamped in my brain. Heath Ledger

Enjoy being alone, that is when your devils come out. Heath Ledger

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they’re dancing and singing. As long as you’re having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they’re gonna feel that. Heath Ledger

No matter what anyone tells me, I’m still gonna do what I want. Heath Ledger

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

Be crazy enough to believe you can do anything in life. Heath Ledger

I never want to feel like I’ve achieved my goal. It’s like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it’s a good season. They feel like they’ll be punished. Heath Ledger

Kill them with kindness and bury them with a smile. Heath Ledger

I do keep pre occupied. Heath Ledger

Stand for yourself, when no one is there to support you. Heath Ledger

Do I really look like a guy with a plan? Heath Ledger

It’s never too late to be what you might have been. Heath Ledger

I have never had great expectations for my performance or a film. I try not to think about the outcome. If you look that far ahead, it sort of taints your choices as an actor. I 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. Then you can allow yourself to bear more. Then, once a project is done, I tend to forget about it until it comes out. Heath Ledger

They need you right now, but when they don’t, they’ll cast you out like a leper! Heath Ledger

I apologize for my terrible interview skills. I wasn’t prepared to expose stories about something so special and wonderfully private that is happening in my life. I guess a part of me wishes that I’d never had to and that maybe I could protect this special time. I was dreaming. Heath Ledger

We stopped checking for monsters under our bed, when we realized they were inside us. Heath Ledger

A little fight in you. I like that. Heath Ledger

They laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at them because they’re all the same. Heath Ledger

Want to know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn’t like that. Not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, why so serious? He comes at me with the knife. Why so serious?! He sticks the blade in my mouth. Let’s put a smile on that face! And why so serious? Heath Ledger

Give a man a mask and he will become his true self. Heath Ledger

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

You can’t rely on anyone these days, you gotta do everything yourself, don’t we? That’s ok, I came prepared, it’s a funny world we live in. Heath Ledger

My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into. Heath Ledger

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

I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you’re forced into using your imagination. You don’t have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch. Heath Ledger

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 do not see the fear. Don’t see the pain. You don’t see thought. Then nothing really matters. Heath Ledger

I only do this because I’m having fun. The day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away. I wasn’t going to have fun doing a teen movie again. I don’t want to do this for the rest of my life. I don’t. I don’t even want to spend the rest of my youth doing this in this industry. There’s so much more I want to discover. Heath Ledger

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

Most of the time you don’t even know they’re there. Now, that’s a scary thing. It’s really strange and invading, but I’m still working it all out. I try to not let it bother me. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I’m still going to do it. I certainly don’t want to feel that I have to change everything in my life that I do to cater to them. I just won’t let it happen. Heath Ledger

It’s kind of a rule of thumb for me to self doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn’t be doing it and I don’t know how to do it and I’m going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out. Heath Ledger

I’m born to be a father. And I’ve been looking forward to this all my life. Heath Ledger

All it takes just one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That is how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. Heath Ledger

We’re actors at the end of the day. I don’t take it home with me. My experience outside of work, I love when I hear wrap, it’s the most exciting part of my day. I’m the first to have my make up off, in the car, out. I’ve gotta go home. I want to get back to my life. I love it back there. Heath Ledger

You’ll never understand the damage you did to someone until the same thing is done to you. Heath Ledger

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

I’m only laughing on the outside. My smile is just skin deep. If you could see inside, I’m really crying. You might join me for a weep. Heath Ledger

I’m just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it. Heath Ledger

Don’t ever let anyone make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want. Heath Ledger

It’s kind of a rule of thumb for me to self doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn’t be doing it and I don’t know how to do it and I’m going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out. Heath Ledger

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

Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair. Heath Ledger

I’ve never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I’m just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it. Heath Ledger

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