Top 160 Hugh Jackman Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward.”

— Hugh Jackman

2. “If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.”

— Hugh Jackman

3. “In life you don’t regret the things you do, you regret the things you don’t do.”

— Hugh Jackman

4. “If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can’t see them having an argument.”

— Hugh Jackman

5. “There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can’t go through life obsessing about what might have been.”

— Hugh Jackman

6. “The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.”

— Hugh Jackman

7. “Unless you’re willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you’ll never make it.”

— Hugh Jackman

8. “Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I’m going to get it tattooed on my forehead.”

— Hugh Jackman

9. “I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don’t have to work extremely hard doing what I hate.”

— Hugh Jackman

10. “The definition of being good is being able to make it look easy.”

— Hugh Jackman

11. “To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me – not success.”

— Hugh Jackman

12. “A film is the director’s medium. The theater is an actor’s.”

— Hugh Jackman

13. “The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It’s miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.”

— Hugh Jackman

14. “My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.”

— Hugh Jackman

15. “Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Thing are made slowly and in pain.”

— Hugh Jackman

16. “I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ is a great one.”

— Hugh Jackman

17. “Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I’m not Hugh Jackman. I’m not a dad. I’m not a husband. I’m just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.”

— Hugh Jackman

18. “To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.”

— Hugh Jackman

19. “Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.”

— Hugh Jackman

20. “Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It’s like the ultimate rest. It’s better than the best sleep you’ve ever had. It’s a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.”

— Hugh Jackman

21. “Transcendental Meditation gives you what you need, when you need it. It’s literally changed my life. Some of the clearest ideas or epiphanies I’ve had in life happened during or after meditating. Everything becomes clear and the truth starts coming out.”

— Hugh Jackman

22. “When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.”

— Hugh Jackman

23. “I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don’t have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We’re very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.”

— Hugh Jackman

24. “I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there’s a different relationship with each of them.”

— Hugh Jackman

25. “I hate being frightened of things. I’m not someone who can say: “Oh, I’m scared of flying, I won’t fly.” Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there’s something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it.”

— Hugh Jackman

26. “If you never fall in love with your character, you’ll never be able to do that character justice. No matter who it is, no matter what the character does, you have to find the reason for it. Everyone’s got a reason for what they do, even if it’s a reason that they’re not proud of.”

— Hugh Jackman

27. “If somebody in your industry is more successful than you, it’s because he works harder than you.”

— Hugh Jackman

28. “I’d sell my soul for a good cause.”

— Hugh Jackman

29. “Nothing has ever opened my eyes like transcendental meditation has. It makes me calm and happy, and, well, it gives me some peace and quiet in what’s a pretty chaotic life!”

— Hugh Jackman

30. “Tiramisu is my favourite.”

— Hugh Jackman

31. “I’ve always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.”

— Hugh Jackman

32. “I’m a big goofball, you know. Don’t tell anyone that, but I’m a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag.”

— Hugh Jackman

33. “Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that – we probably had the word ‘cappuccino’ about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.”

— Hugh Jackman

34. “The Wolverine was fired from his job as a cashier in a newsagents after just six weeks because his boss said, “he talks too much to customers”. He can talk to me all day.”

— Hugh Jackman

35. “I don’t think I knew how going to Ethiopia would affect my life, through a very simple choice of buying fair-trade coffee, we can take part in change.”

— Hugh Jackman

36. “I once sang ‘Summer Nights,’ from ‘Grease,’ at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who’s a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny – sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar – while I got stuck playing Sandy.”

— Hugh Jackman

37. “I’m a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it’s pure.”

— Hugh Jackman

38. “Doing anything worthwhile takes forever.”

— Hugh Jackman

39. “One thing that I love about World Vision is every place they go, they go in with an exit plan, they don’t want people dependent on them.”

— Hugh Jackman

40. “I’m doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called ‘The Boy from Oz,’ where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don’t know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.”

— Hugh Jackman

41. “I have two children and it’s amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.”

— Hugh Jackman

42. “I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn’t understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.”

— Hugh Jackman

43. “Your marriage goes to a whole new level. You not only fall in love with your wife in a new way, but you’re forced to pull together. You have to become a united front.”

— Hugh Jackman

44. “As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.”

— Hugh Jackman

45. “With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I’m not afraid to make a fool of myself.”

— Hugh Jackman

46. “I’m an actor. Never trust an actor, whatever their energy is. I suppose you guys see that side of me, but I’m sure there’s plenty of people close to me who’ve seen the other one. I think if we’re all honest with ourselves, we all know that internal rage.”

— Hugh Jackman

47. “At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I’d try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that’s what acting is: a small business.”

— Hugh Jackman

48. “Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don’t get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don’t have to do as much, like you don’t go on as many outings.”

— Hugh Jackman

49. “Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the ‘X-Men’ characters, for more than the action. I think that’s what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.”

— Hugh Jackman

50. “Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn’t, they’d spit on me in the street.”

— Hugh Jackman