Top 160 Hugh Jackman Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I’m on a film set.”

— Hugh Jackman

52. “I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time, and there’s a tailor I go to in Naples who’s fantastic. But if I told anyone his name, I’d have to kill them.”

— Hugh Jackman

53. “I’m an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It’s not always easy to find but it’s still there.”

— Hugh Jackman

54. “My favorite play in drama school was ‘The Bacchae.’ It’s about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy – it’s related to the word ‘bacchanal’ – and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.”

— Hugh Jackman

55. “The moment your kid’s born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don’t care. You’re basically making it up as you go along.”

— Hugh Jackman

56. “Writer’s block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.”

— Hugh Jackman

57. “If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don’t want to be ‘Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.’”

— Hugh Jackman

58. “When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I’m naturally a lot more Tommy Tune than I am Wolverine.”

— Hugh Jackman

59. “Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don’t want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.”

— Hugh Jackman

60. “Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.”

— Hugh Jackman

61. “When you’re playing an icon like Wolverine, it’s sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don’t know what to expect. I don’t mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway.”

— Hugh Jackman

62. “Luckily, I’m not afraid to make a fool of myself.”

— Hugh Jackman

63. “If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I’m close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I’m bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.”

— Hugh Jackman

64. “The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself.”

— Hugh Jackman

65. “Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you’re really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you’re on the right track.”

— Hugh Jackman

66. “Salvatore Ferragamo have done some nice handmade suits for me.”

— Hugh Jackman

67. “I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.”

— Hugh Jackman

68. “Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.”

— Hugh Jackman

69. “For me that’s one of the great indulgences in life – a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.”

— Hugh Jackman

70. “Anyone who thinks they’re indispensible is fooling themselves.”

— Hugh Jackman

71. “You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else’s voice but your own.”

— Hugh Jackman

72. “My father is very Jean Valjean. He’s what I would call a great example of a religious person. He is a deeply thoughtful man whose religion is in his deeds way more than anything else. It’s not talked about that much.”

— Hugh Jackman

73. “Singing is incredibly physical.”

— Hugh Jackman

74. “Your idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.”

— Hugh Jackman

75. “Wolverine was created in the ’60s, but he feels like a ’70s character in every way. More Dirty Harry, more politically incorrect, the hair, the mutton chops.”

— Hugh Jackman

76. “I didn’t really know X-Men at all before I started. So I’d heard of this comic but I didn’t know it was as beloved or as iconic as I have now found out, but I just know fans are going to flip out at this.”

— Hugh Jackman

77. “The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it’s very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.”

— Hugh Jackman

78. “I think adoption is a blessing all around when it’s done right.”

— Hugh Jackman

79. “There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn’t resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.”

— Hugh Jackman

80. “One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I’d be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun – especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.”

— Hugh Jackman

81. “My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.”

— Hugh Jackman

82. “I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I’ve seen people I admire falter. We’re all vulnerable.”

— Hugh Jackman

83. “My dad’s main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.”

— Hugh Jackman

84. “If I go to a party I don’t feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don’t remember putting up my hand and all that often but I’d just find myself there.”

— Hugh Jackman

85. “I’m quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I’m very family-oriented. It’s a big priority in my life.”

— Hugh Jackman

86. “I’ve never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.”

— Hugh Jackman

87. “We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.”

— Hugh Jackman

88. “I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed.”

— Hugh Jackman

89. “For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it’s the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.”

— Hugh Jackman

90. “What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I’m going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.”

— Hugh Jackman

91. “That’s all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.”

— Hugh Jackman

92. “As an actor, you have many tools – your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don’t say is more important than what you say. That’s not so much the case for stage.”

— Hugh Jackman

93. “Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.”

— Hugh Jackman

94. “When your dreams becoming reality, they’re no longer your dreams.”

— Hugh Jackman

95. “Life has ups and it has downs. I don’t care who you are.”

— Hugh Jackman

96. “I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it’s everything and if you don’t do well, your life’s over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.”

— Hugh Jackman

97. “I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don’t think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.”

— Hugh Jackman

98. “To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn’t raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I’m passionate about food!”

— Hugh Jackman

99. “If I’m a lush at anything, it’s food and drink. I’m not materialistic in any way, but I value food.”

— Hugh Jackman

100. “I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, ‘Dad, why don’t you wear that at work?’ And he said, ‘Your religion should be in your actions.’ He set a great, great example.”

— Hugh Jackman