ON BEING A SEX SYMBOL ...
The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing
parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still
accused of that. You're still tainted with that brush. I'm
not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk
Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's
my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around,
that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at
your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little
bit more.
"I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol.
That's not how I'm programmed."
"I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever.
If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from
what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do
better things."
"I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays
up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as
an actor."
"Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes
off" - (People Magazine 3/26/01)
ON HIS ROLES
On his role in The Talented Mr. Ripley - "I told Anthony
that if I play Dickie Greenleaf, I want to eat in the best
restaurants and drink the best wines every night because he
would".
"I've always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was
the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch."
"The only film I ever made for money was something called
Music From Another Room, which I really didn't like."
"I only want to do the kind of work that I would like
to go and see, that's going to teach me something new, that
involves working with people I can learn something from and
I can give something to."
ON NUDITY
"Well, I had to do a nude scene [in the play Indiscretions],
and you're on stage naked but you get over it, you do whatever
you have to do. But the first night, my character is just
getting out of the bath, and the rest of the crew had poured
in freezing cold water."
"I have no problem with nudity. My friend Ewan and I
are starkers in most of our films."
ON LIFE
"My only obligation is to keep myself and other people
guessing."
"I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate
about."
"I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia,
which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own
lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a
soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that
was brilliant. Brilliant."
ON FAMILY
"I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt
the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting
someone and becoming a father."
"Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything
if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean
everything to me." (before splitting from Sadie Frost,
but he still keeps up a good relationship with his kids)
"There were two instances where the police were called
for whatever reason to my old house and they sold the story,
telling lies. The police were responding to phone calls that
happened, but they were then coming out and creating an atmosphere,
a drama, when actually nothing had happened; there were no
charges pressed. But that's the High Court and then the police
selling stories, so how are you going to live in a country
and feel safe?"
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