62 Jude Law Quotes

Jude Law quotes

1. 'Jude was fabulous. ... He's great to work with. He's really just a nice guy. ...' Norah Jones [1]

2. 'He is a wonderful, laid-back, normal person, ...' Norah Jones [2]

3. 'I've worked with a lot of generous actors, but Jude is at the top of the list ...' - Philip Seymour Hoffman (Premiere magazine, June 2001)

4. 'Jude Law is one of the finest actors of our time ...' - Sean Penn

5. 'He's the most beautiful man who ever walked the earth ...' - Naomi Watts (People magazine, November 24, 2004)

6. 'He and Ethan Hawke are my favorite guys I've ever worked with.' - Gwyneth Paltrow ( Vanity Fair, October 2004)

7. 'He's the most charming man you could ever hope to come across ...' - Gwyneth Paltrow (People magazine, November 24, 2004)

8. 'Jude's uniqueness is that he has the talent of a character actor and the looks of a leading man.' - John Avnet (People magazine, November 24, 2004)

9. 'He's a wonderful, wonderful person. He's deeply professional and also incredibly funny ... he's a rip-roaring laugh ...' - Kate Winslet [3]

10. 'Jude Law is a wonderful partner in these things. ... He's totally respectful. He's a very nice professional guy. He's the perfect person to do something like this with.' Cameron Diaz [4]

11. ... and Jude Law is so wonderful as Gigolo Joe. ... Ian Watson [5]

12. 'Jude Law is one of the most handsome men on the planet. He is a character actor struggling to get out of a beautiful body.' - Anthony Minghella [6]

13. 'The best actors always retain an air of mystery. The boring actors are the ones who give 100 per cent. One will never get to know the real Jude Law.' - Po-Chih Leong [7]

14. 'My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.' [8]

15. 'The reality is who you are in the morning. Fame is not the secret to happiness.'

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

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

18. '[...] you go to the National with your parents and think: 'I'd love to be here.' And then suddenly you are. It's a dream come true.'

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

20. '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.'

21. 'I have no problem with nudity. My friend Ewan and I are starkers in most of our films.'

22. '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.'

23. 'I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.' Jude Law's answer to a paparazzi

24. '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.'

25. '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'. - on his role in The Talented Mr. Ripley

26. 'Yeah, I got blown up, cut up...I remember actually, when I had to go the Ripley premiere which was happening at that time, I arrived with this huge gash in my head. Very cool, really'. - about working on Enemy at the Gates

27. 'Matt [Damon] broke my rib! But I think I strained his neck, we got a little bit carried away'. - about his injury during Dickie's death scene in The Talented Mr. Ripley

28. 'Through one of those fantastical phone calls when your agent calls you and says 'Stephen Spielberg is on the phone, he wants to speak to you about his next film.' And once you've peeled yourself of the ceiling you go, *clears throat* Yeah, great.' - about how he got the role of Gigolo Joe

29. 'I throw root vegetables at them.' - about the paparazzi

30. 'We are in a very vain, very appearance-conscious world nowadays. But, you won't get any answers. Wearing the right suit doesn't necessarily make you happy.' - on the importance of fashion.

31. 'Bosie [from the movie Wilde] was the first part I was ever offered, which I suppose is sort of an insult because he's just the nastiest bastard!'

32. '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.'

33. 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.'

34. '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.'

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

36. 'I had my 'Alfie' days in my late teens. Those years when suddenly you are legally allowed into bars and clubs, and the world, you realize, is offering itself to you. But, I would say if you look at my life, I was someone who always looked for commitment and that was in my makeup.' - on his teen years.

37. '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.'

38. '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.'

39. '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?'

40. 'Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off' - (People Magazine 3/26/01)

41. 'It's not ideal for me that they come out all one after the other in four or five months. I did them all because I found them very different different kinds of films, different kinds of parts. And I hope people recognize the variety rather than the onslaught'. - on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, I Heart Huckabees, Alfie, Closer and The Aviator - within 6 months of each other. He actually did them in the last two years.

42. '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.'

1. You cant spend your life apologizing.

2. You can't spend your life apologizing.

3. I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you kind of stem into other things that you find of influence, perhaps the things that you're watching. It's a good excuse to get to know a new profession, or a new approach, or a new era. It's about authenticity. It's about having the confidence to really feel that you're saturated and know the world you're about to step into and understand the person you're about to be.

4. I think the message of peace is for everyone.

5. There are always seasons to a career and perhaps always the grass is often greener, you're often looking at other people's careers going, "Damn, they get all the good roles. Why didn't I read that? Why didn't they ask me to do that?"

6. When someone like Steven Soderbergh asks you to do a film you know you're in good hands. You know it's going to be slick, and it's going to be intelligent, and it's going to have a kind of style to it, and I would probably have done anything to be really honest.

7. You are [as an actor] aware that you don't want to repeat stuff, but you want to use what has worked. But you don't want to be accused of just going over the old thing, you know? You want it to start growing a little bit more.

8. 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.

9. The other nice thing about the robes is that they keep you cool in the summer, and we were filming sometimes in Rome, where it was sometimes over 100 degrees.

10. Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play terrible characters at a really great time in your life. Sometimes, the right character comes along at the right time.

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

12. 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 and... You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good. Because if you regret, in a way, have you learnt and moved on?

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

14. 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.

15. The greatest gift an actor can have is not revealing who he is but through the parts he plays. Unfortunately, we live in a world where everyone wants to know everything all the time and I think it takes away part of the fun of acting that we have to go through that all the time.

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

17. It was the shaving that bothered me the most. I'm not a great fan of shaving and I had to be really clean-shaven, hands, head, hairline, all the fluff off my face, everything except my eyebrows, so this sheen, this kind of polish they used on me, would stick.

18. 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.

19. When you got source material, whether it's a play or a book - a great writer often appreciates being adapted and developed. It's like when you go see a production of a great play and they are always different. There is always room for interpretation.

20. 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.