Jude Law Quotes

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

It's not in my character to say what I'm going to do and how it's going to go.

When I wake up in the morning, I know I have to do this, this, this and this. It has to get done and that's what you do.

Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

You need responsibility in life.

I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. The more talents we possess, the bigger the responsibility we have to develop them to their fullest capacity.

Delivering the 'Grand Rapids Press' taught me responsibility, accountability, and all the principles of the rewards of hard work.

You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.

We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.

I'm more mature. I respect more the game as I should.

My younger self wouldn't recognise me at all. She would think I was quite serious, organised and practical, but I've had to be to run the foundation.

I had no plans to become a responsible person.

I can do what I want, when I want. I want to go to this place, I pick up and go. It's nice. I've just never been inclined to do anything that's too crazy. But I still have to work, you know. Some days I don't feel like going to the studio. But I still have to.

Normally I'm the type who wouldn't bail on a responsibility unless dead on the side of the road, and I believe deeply in the importance of continuing to follow our own paths.

I learned so much because I moved out of my mom's when I was 18. It teaches you to be responsible, to be independent.

I do not like to avoid responsibilities and feel that I am responsible.

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.