16 Jude Law Quotes on Acting

Jude Law quotes on acting

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

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

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]

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

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.'

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

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

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.'

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.