Hugh Jackman Quotes

The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.

Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.

In college, that was when I felt that acting is the one I really wanted because I got to be my true self; this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.

Acting is my life. It's what I live and breathe.

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

We're very lucky people, doing something that we really love to do. I feel privileged to have been an actor all my life.

When I discovered acting, I decided that's what I wanted to do above everything else. It was the first time I was passionate about anything.

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.

From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.

With theatre, I found that one thing that I am good at and it gave me so much confidence. I feel like I have found my calling and that's how films happened to me as well.

Acting is my calling, not my career.

I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

Acting should be an end in itself.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

I never saw an actor and thought, 'Wow, I want to be like that.' It's just I wanted it to be part of my life.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.