Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I'm not a loner at all. "
Hugh Jackman
Loner
Related Quotes:
" My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that. "
Hugh Jackman
Friends
You
Sleeping
" When I made 'Real Steel,' the director actually had the robots in the monitor, so he knew where everything was. So technically, there's been advancements. But at the end of the day, movies are about story and characters, so all the other stuff is great, but unless you have those two elements, then you've got nothing. "
Hugh Jackman
End
Day
Story
" 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
King
Chaos
Drama
" My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing. "
Hugh Jackman
Father
Champion
Brother
" I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere. "
Hugh Jackman
World
Smart
Party
" 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
School
Myself
Feel
" It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material. "
Hugh Jackman
Look
Song
Thought
" But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do. "
Hugh Jackman
Most
Dancing
Difficult
" Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead. "
Hugh Jackman
Right
Always
Simple
" 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
Moment
You
Care
" 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
Father
Perspective
Parenting
" 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
Think
God
Me
" I always felt love from both my parents. "
Hugh Jackman
Felt
Love
Parents
" One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better. "
Hugh Jackman
One Day
Love
Done
" Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you. "
Hugh Jackman
You
Job
Country
" I'm quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win. "
Hugh Jackman
Win
Competitive
Quite
" 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
Husband
Powerful
Bath
" 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
Time
Tailor
Dress
" 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
World
Business
Time
" 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
You
People
Down
" 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
Father
Thoughtful
Great
" But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer. "
Hugh Jackman
Growing Up
Life
Growing
" My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic. "
Hugh Jackman
Many
Ways
Similar
" 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
Sports
School
Me
" I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much. "
Hugh Jackman
You
Simplicity
Great
" 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
Me
Memory
Saying
" I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder. "
Hugh Jackman
Gay
Ladder
Wife
" I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.' "
Hugh Jackman
Movies
People
Doing
" 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
Religion
Father
You
" 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
My Life
People
Life