Quotes

• Quotes by Hugh Jackman  
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• „Acting is something I love. It`s a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don`t think it`s any greater challenge than teaching 8 year olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.”

• „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.“

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

• „Finally something my family can be proud of”

• „I didn`t do the motion capture work; I didn`t do any of that. I don`t know if they`ve used my voice or not, they probably have.. I did a lot of recordings on the first movie for dolls and videogames, so they probably just used the same stuff.” - [on Wolverine videogame]

• „I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It’s kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It’s thrilling.“

• „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.“

• „I have shocking teeth… I`m being a little facetious-I just went to the dentist the other day, and he looked at my teeth and went, `Oh, my God, you`ve got gray teeth.`”

• „I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids` parties for about three years.“

• „I never read comics as a kid, and when I was slipped the comics under my trailer door, Bryan Singer didn`t want us to read them. He was very frightened that we would come out with these 2D characters, and I was amazed at how helpful they were, the images more than the story. The images, and how they capture emotion or an action sequence in just, say, three images - I have to say I used them as inspiration for some of the fighting stances or techniques. The way Wolverine stands and how he looks.“

• „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.“

• „I`m not a kid. You don`t get in this business for anonymity. It`s not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I`m kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That`s what I`m more protective of“.

• „I`ve always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I`ve always said `yes` to the thing I`m most scared about. The fear of letting myself down — of saying `no` to something that I was afraid of and then sitting in my room later going, `I wish I`d had the guts to say this or that` — that galvanizes me more than anything.“

• „I’m not really worried. Probably too many skinny-dipping parties as a young man. Sometimes there can be so much effort when people put on a sock and tape it up here and there. I know they can’t have my willy in shot so I just figure, what the hell?”

• „My agent said to me five years ago, ‘Hugh, I can see one day you… if I had to plan a goal for you, it’s for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.“’

• „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.”

• „On turning down the chance to play Richard Gere`s character in the Harvey Weinstein-produced film Chicago) “I thought I was too young for the role. You have some 34-year-old guy up against Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renée Zellweger and it becomes a different movie. At one point, Harvey was telling me they were thinking of Kevin Spacey, and I told him, `That`s exactly right. You should hire him.` Then I was in New York when the movie opened and the queue was around the block. I sat down and thought that I had probably made the biggest mistake. But I still honestly think that it was the right thing to do. I still think I was too young for that part.”

• „People can stick pins in it, put in the freezer. It`s far more dangerous than a videogame.” - [about his action figures]

• „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.“

• „The character I play is actually only 1.6 meters [5` 3]. Before I had any kind of acting profile I was encouraged to lie about my height. I was told to say I was about six foot [1.83m] tall. I was worried about it when I first had my audition because pleasing fans of the franchise is important. My height was brought up on the Internet. They didn`t think it was right. A lot of people who never met me think I`m very short. Jimmy Marsden (Cyclops), who`s only 10cm [4 inches] shorter than me, was put on boxes and platforms in our scenes together. You`ll notice that every character in X-men looks taller than me.”

• „There is something very secretive about the way they cast that role. I`ve never had an official call asking: `Are you interested or not`, but there`s no guy I know who wouldn`t want that role - and that includes me. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.” [on the now [Nov. 2004] opened spot for the next James Bond]

• „We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we`d do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind.“