Hugh Jackman Quotes

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

My work is intensely personal.

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.