Hugh Jackman Quotes

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

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

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

The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.

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.

Salvatore Ferragamo have done some nice handmade suits for me.

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried.

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

The definition of being good is being able to make it look easy.

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

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.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set.

I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right.

I don't think I knew how going to Ethiopia would affect my life, through a very simple choice of buying fair-trade coffee, we can take part in change.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for.

Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Thing are made slowly and in pain.

Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in front of other people.

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.

Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.

When your dreams becoming reality, they're no longer your dreams.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

Doing anything worthwhile takes forever.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

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

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

I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the most free moments of my life...I think it's also one thing that scares me the most.

Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street.

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.

The best part about being married is that feeling of being a team. All couples have ups and downs, so having someone you trust is priceless

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.

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a 'flat white.' It's like a small latte with less milk - they're popular in Australia.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag.

Wolverine was created in the '60s, but he feels like a '70s character in every way. More Dirty Harry, more politically incorrect, the hair, the mutton chops.

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

To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.

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.

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

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.