Hugh Jackman famous quotes

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Appreciation #Gratitude #Sleep

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

#Men #Fans #Flip

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Coffee #Smell #Invention

I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film!
-- Hugh Jackman

#Thinking #May #Film

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

#Morning #Goes On #Oscars

I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Thinking #Years #Play

I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Inspirational #Blessing #Thinking

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

#Letting Go #Buddhist #Husband

Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Motivation #Hands #People

Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Twists #Meals #Breakfast

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.
-- Hugh Jackman

#People #Wish #Saying No

I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Daughter #Mother #Son

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.
-- Hugh Jackman

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

#Tattoo #Thinking #Color

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Kids #People #Age

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

#School #Thinking #Opportunity

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

#Father #Car #Passionate

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Mother #Running #Daughter

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Jesus #Together #Dinner

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Different #Actors #Body

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

#Jobs #Believe #Journey

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Directors #Actors #Film

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Hands #Shoes #Tailored Suits

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

#Moving #Son #Gay

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Party #Kids #Years

I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the most free moments of my life...I think it's also one thing that scares me the most.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Thinking #Interesting #Acting

I would love to have a robot at home.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Home #Robots

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

#Believe #Actors #Emotion

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Heart #Acting #My Heart

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Letting Go #Fascination #Want

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

#People #Ghost

Meditation has changed my life
-- Hugh Jackman

#Meditation #Changed #Changed My Life

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Philosophy #Mean #Play

I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Summer #Good Friend #Night

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.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Love #Fall #Men

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

#Dad #Selfish #Gentleman

In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's really kind of a real thrill to go there. I mean, don't forget, I'm a boy from the suburbs of Sydney, so getting to New York is a huge, huge thrill.
-- Hugh Jackman

#New York #Real #Mean

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

#Song #Interesting #Needs

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.'
-- Hugh Jackman

#Years #Careers #Goal

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Nike #Growing Up #Father

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

#Kings #Drama #School

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

#Dad #Sleep #Kids

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Team #Cutting #Editing

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

#Memories #Book #Wife

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

#Party #School #Hands

I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.
-- Hugh Jackman

#School #Use #Mixtures

The optimization of cosmic darkness and of Earth's location within the dark universe that sacrifices neither the material needs of human beings nor their capacity to gain knowledge about the universe reflects masterful engineering at a level far beyond human capability- and even imagination. It testifies of a supernatural, superintelligent, superpowerful, fully deliberate Creator.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Dark #Sacrifice #Engineering

I love New York... I think it's the best city in the world. As far as cities go, everything's there. I think it's so vibrant. I love the people, I think they're honest, in your face. If they don't like you, they'll say, 'Get out of my way,' if they like you they'll slap you on the back and support you. It's a very intoxicating environment to be in.
-- Hugh Jackman

#New York #Thinking #Cities

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Party #Parent #Dinner

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Country #Growing Up #Dancer

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Boys #America #Play

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

#Dirty #Character #Hair

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.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Business #Wall #Kids

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

#Independent #Men #Boys

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

#Icons #Mind #Subway

Your marriage goes to a whole new level. You not only fall in love with your wife in a new way, but you're forced to pull together. You have to become a united front.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Falling In Love #Dad #Love You

Talking about an X-Men Kissing scene I had to lay down there and think of England as one by one they bring out the girls. It was a very tough morning... After each girl had finished, the crew would hold up scorecards.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Girl #Morning #Kissing

I'm not a loner at all.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Loner

Boring' can be a lot of fun. Especially if it's on your own terms.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Fun #Boring #Term

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

#Book #Kids #Class

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Lying #Middle #Cynic

By nature I'm not a brooder.
-- Hugh Jackman

I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Sports #Business #Mad

Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Philosophy #Looks #Bonus

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness...
-- Hugh Jackman

#Meditation #Pursuit #Nothingness

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Long #Musical #Would Be

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Truth #Simple #Reality

The hunger will give you everything and it will take from you, everything. It will cost you your life, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. But knowing this, of course, is what ultimately sets you free.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Knowing #Giving #Cost

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Years #Drawing #Energy

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Drama #School #Boys

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

#Actors #Want #Bus

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

#Writing #Years #Track

I can live with failure if it is born of conviction.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Conviction #Born

We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for,
-- Hugh Jackman

#Giving #Credit #Ability

Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Fool #Not Afraid

I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Opportunity #Firsts #Auditions

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

#Couple #Kids #Thinking