Hugh Jackman Quotes

• That’s all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Children, Nature

  Tags in Natural, Protecting

• The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it’s very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Singing, Boots

• The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don’t think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Commodity, Different

• There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can’t go through life obsessing about what might have been.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Blaming, Stop

• To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inventions, Coffee

• When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happened, Daughter

• 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.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Convention, Actually

• Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It’s like the ultimate rest. It’s better than the best sleep you’ve ever had. It’s a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Surroundings, Sharpens

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chaos, Literally

• 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

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Australia, Sum

• One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I’d be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun – especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cricket, Drove

• If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I’m close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I’m bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inability, Fault

• It’s fair to say that, by ‘X-Men 3,’ Wolverine had gone a little soft, and I agree with them there. What fans love about Wolverine is his more uncompromising approach to life. He is who he is. He’s not always a nice guy. He has got edge. He’s an anti-hero. And, there’s also a vulnerability in there. There is conflict and battles going on in there.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Approach, Uncompromising

• 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.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Boxing, Champion

• I’m always very nervous about the word ‘dancer’ next to my name because anyone who’s really trained in dance will go, ‘This guy’s fudging so badly.’

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dancer, Nervous

• I’m doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called ‘The Boy from Oz,’ where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don’t know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marrying, Broadway

• I’m not a kid. You don’t get in this business for anonymity. It’s not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I’m kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family – their privacy. That’s what I’m more protective of.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Anonymity, Ready

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Growing, Priority

• I’ve dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought ‘Les Mis’ would be possible.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Musical, Reason

• 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.

  Hugh Jackman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Centre, Putting

Hugh Jackman (103)

Birth:	12th October, 1968
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actor, Producer

About

Hugh Michael Jackman was born in Sydney, Australia. He is an Australian actor and producer. He is known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series. He earned a BA degree in Communications from the University of Technology, Sydney in 1991. His role in several films include: Erskineville Kings, X-Men, Kate & Leopold, The Prestige, The Fountain, Australia, Les Misérables(nomination-Academy Award for Best Actor and won-Golden Globe Award for Best Actor- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy), and Prisoners. His role in television include: Correlli, The Man from Snowy River, and Viva Laughlin(executive producer). He produced several films include: Deception and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. In Broadway theatre, he won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz. He won an Emmy Award for one of these appearances. He also hosted the 81st Academy Awards on 22 February 2009.

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