Jude Law Quotes on Career
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'Jude Law is one of the finest actors of our time ...' - Sean Penn
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'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)
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'My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.' [8]
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'I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.'
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'I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.'
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'[...] 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.'
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'I've always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.'
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'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.'
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'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
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'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!'
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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.'
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'The only film I ever made for money was something called Music From Another Room, which I really didn't like.'
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'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.'
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'Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off' - (People Magazine 3/26/01)
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'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.