Hugh Jackman Quotes

“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

“That's the great thing about parenting. You end up going places you never thought you'd go.”

— Hugh Jackman

“I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.”

— Hugh Jackman

“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

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

“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

“I'd sell my soul for a good cause.”

— Hugh Jackman

“I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.”

— Hugh Jackman

“My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.”

— Hugh Jackman

“When lifting, I'm always with a trainer because the thing that makes a difference is that last 20% in your training, and he very scientifically looks after my food as well, because when I'm going for a 'shirt off' shot, everything changes the month before, and I'm timed down to the day.”

— Hugh Jackman

“As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.”

— Hugh Jackman

“I'm a big goofball, you know. Don't tell anyone that, but I'm a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag.”

— Hugh Jackman

“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

“As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.”

— Hugh Jackman

My father was an army champion boxer ... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.

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“I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine,' 'X Men,' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.”

— Hugh Jackman

“What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.”

— Hugh Jackman

“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

“I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.”

— Hugh Jackman

“I'm quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win.”

— Hugh Jackman

“I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.”

— Hugh Jackman

“I have lots of older siblings, and as they started to leave the house, I went from cooking once a week to twice, three times, and so on. After a while, it was just like making the bed.”

— Hugh Jackman

“To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.”

— Hugh Jackman

“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

“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

“Singing is incredibly physical.”

— Hugh Jackman

“Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.”

— Hugh Jackman

“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.”

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“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.”

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“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

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

— Hugh Jackman

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

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“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

“We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.”

— Hugh Jackman

“In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.”

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“Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward.”

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“Meditation has changed my life”

— Hugh Jackman

“One thing that I love about World Vision is every place they go, they go in with an exit plan, they don't want people dependent on them.”

— Hugh Jackman

“If you never fall in love with your character, you'll never be able to do that character justice. No matter who it is, no matter what the character does, you have to find the reason for it. Everyone's got a reason for what they do, even if it's a reason that they're not proud of.”

— Hugh Jackman

“People photograph everything and nothing - no interaction is deemed to have actually happened unless somebody has a picture of it,”

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Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.

— Hugh Jackman

The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself.

— Hugh Jackman

“I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.”

— Hugh Jackman

“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.”

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“Tiramisu is my favourite.”

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“Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.”

— Hugh Jackman

“I can live with failure if it is born of conviction.”

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“I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who don't believe in it and some actors who prefer not to rehearse.”

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I think one of the things I always loved about the comics was this idea that this character, when he goes berserk, that white, blind rage makes him incredibly powerful, but it's also a great flaw. It's almost like he loses consciousness of what he's doing. During that he can do great damage.

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“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