Jude Law Quotes

1. I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids…Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.


2. London is my home...I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

3. We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

4. My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

5. I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a "Mission: Impossible."




6. 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.

7. Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.







8. Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

9. In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

10. There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

11. My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.



12. The only film I ever made for money was something called "Music From Another Room", which I really didn't like.

13. When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.


14. I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

15. When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.

16. You can't spend your life apologizing.

17. You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

18. I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say: "Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be."

19. 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.


20. 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.

21. I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.




22. I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.

23. I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.

24. I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too "showy-offy" but the older I get I think: "You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket."

25. Believe me when I say it's a good thing to grab a mug of tea and curl up with a great Sherlock Holmes book.

26. I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

27. I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

28. I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.


29. There's a downside to every life. There's a downside to every career. And the downside to my career is the attention I get for what I do. But you learn to deal with it. It's like a fly buzzing around your head. You just have to learn to ignore the fly.

30. I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.

31. I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.


32. I've always thought Prince Charming in "Cinderella" was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.

33. I suppose, some days I wake up and I have to be responsible and down-to-earth and reliable, and other days I don't. I think this job in particular allows us all to be Holmes-ian; eccentric and imaginative and creative and to think out of the box. Real life, away from work, requires us to be slightly more Dr. John Watson.

34. 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.

35. I've never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason.

36. If I have a look around at the moment I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like Robert Pattinson must now play the Adonis. For me it was always a restraint, a restriction.

37. As a culture, the West has found itself in a strange, not battle of the genders, but battle in one's own gender. There's been so much equalizing that we've all kind of lost a little sense of who and what we're about, and a certain amount of definitions of who and what being a woman and being a man is about. It's almost like a murky middle ground that sometimes diffuses the definition and out of that has indeed spawned, in certain areas, misogynism.

38. Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

39. I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.


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