"I
prefer to date older women because they don't try to act older
like younger girls but because they try to act younger."
Heath Ledger gives a lot of interviews in magazines ... and
we like to read them! Here's some snippets from recent years.
Access Hollywood - August 2000
"It's a little uncomfortable doing love scenes in armor,
but, you know, when the heat's on, the heat's on."
National Post - May 2001
on paparazzi ... "Most of the time you don't even know
they're there. Now, that's the scary thing. It's really strange
and invading, but I'm still working it all out. I try to not
let it bother me. I really try and find the humour in all
of it. 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." -
Vanity Fair - August 2000
"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 want to spend the rest of my youth
doing this in this industry. There's so much I want to discover."
Reel.com -May 2001
"I don't have a technique. I've never been a believer
in having one set technique on how to act. There are no rules
and there is no rulebook. At the end of the day, it all comes
down to my instincts. That's the one thing that guides me
through every decision professionally. Socially, also. That's
my technique. Yeah, you read through the script 100 times.
I guess I have little characteristics about myself. Sometimes,
most often than not, once we start shooting I won't look at
the script at all until we finished shooting. It's kind of
like it's been imprinted in my head during rehearsals. You
just let it go."
EW.com - May 2001
"I'm the worst auditioner, really, really bad. I mean,
you're being judged and I'm just so aware of it that it consumes
me. I can't relax, I'm tied in knots, so the voice is very
taut and tense. You're so aware that you're acting 'cause
you're sitting across from this lady with a piece of paper
who's going, ''I'm. Going. To. Shoot. You. If. You. Don't.
Blah, blah, blah,'' in this emotionless voice. It's foul.
I hate it."
NW Magazine, March 2000
People just love to bash LA. People say it's so pretentious,
so arrogant, so this and that. But it's truly a wonderful
place. You don't have to go to the places where that stuff
goes on. You don't have to go to Beverly Hills, you don't
have to go to the parties. You can live up in the Lower Canyon
and live such a perfectly healthy, beautiful, fun life with
all your friends. You can drive two hours one way and be at
the Joshua Tree desert, two hours one way you're skiing at
Big Bear. Sure, it can get full-on and that's why it's good
to get out. But it's too easy just to say, "Nup, I hate
it. I'm not living there anymore.
Cosmopolitan, June 1998
on growing up with his mom and his sisters ... I learned
respect for women, and patience. You grow up with all those
women around you ... you learn to wait your turn.
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