Top 70 Heath Ledger Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

2. “I believe whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stranger.”

— Heath Ledger

3. “The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules!”

— Heath Ledger

4. “Never give up on what makes you smile.”

— Heath Ledger

5. “Let’s put a smile on that face!”

— Heath Ledger

6. “Do I really look like a guy with a plan?”

— Heath Ledger

7. “Don’t let anyone ever make you feel you don’t deserve what you want...”

— Heath Ledger

8. “See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.”

— Heath Ledger

9. “You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.”

— Heath Ledger

10. “Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!”

— Heath Ledger

11. “I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.”

— Heath Ledger

12. “I like to do something I fear.”

— Heath Ledger

13. “If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don’t grow.”

— Heath Ledger

14. “I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. I don’t have a day planner and I don’t have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.”

— Heath Ledger

15. “If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.”

— Heath Ledger

16. “Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?”

— Heath Ledger

17. “I feel like I’m wasting time if I repeat myself.”

— Heath Ledger

18. “A little fight in you. I like that.”

— Heath Ledger

19. “Some people just wanna see the world burn.”

— Heath Ledger

20. “I’m sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it’s certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.”

— Heath Ledger

21. “I only do this because I’m having fun. The day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away.”

— Heath Ledger

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22. “May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.”

— Heath Ledger

23. “I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.”

— Heath Ledger

24. “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

25. “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

26. “My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.”

— Heath Ledger

27. “If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.”

— Heath Ledger

28. “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

29. “I’m in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.”

— Heath Ledger

30. “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

31. “I’m kind of addicted to moving.”

— Heath Ledger

32. “When I first started acting, I was just crap.”

— Heath Ledger

33. “I’m born to be a father. And I’ve been looking forward to this all my life.”

— Heath Ledger

34. “I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.”

— Heath Ledger

35. “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

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36. “Growing up in Australia, you never feel like you’re going to live beyond that place. You wake up and you go to the beach, and you do your homework. You’re just a kid.”

— Heath Ledger

37. “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

38. “The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I’m serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever.”

— Heath Ledger

39. “I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices – it reflects on who I am.”

— Heath Ledger

40. “My life is together, both professionally and socially.”

— Heath Ledger

41. “I feel like I’ve never been in a film that people have liked before.”

— Heath Ledger

42. “Had I listened to my agent, I’d be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.”

— Heath Ledger

43. “I do keep pre-occupied.”

— Heath Ledger

44. “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

45. “I generally don’t think most situations can be labeled as black or white.”

— Heath Ledger

46. “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

47. “Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.”

— Heath Ledger

48. “I apologize for my terrible interview skills.”

— Heath Ledger

49. “It’s odd, that’s why I don’t like telling people I played field hockey. It’s real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, ‘Oh, you girl!’”

— Heath Ledger

50. “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