Jude Law Quotes

You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'

Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.

If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

Women like bad boys…Being a good boy never worked for me.

I suppose that some days I wake up I have to wake up and be responsible, reliable and down to earth, and some days I don't.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

You cant spend your life apologizing.

A job is not just a job. It’s who you are.

I've never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason.

I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.

I've always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

There is something nice about wearing the same thing everyday, having that go-to.

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that's going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them and go, "I can't ever possibly play this." And I don't!

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one.

I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'

I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.

It's interesting to see how people bring different things to them. I think it comes down to the universal appeal of the Holmes-Watson that they can keep being discovered in different ways.

I think the message of peace is for everyone.

I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.

The other nice thing about the robes is that they keep you cool in the summer, and we were filming sometimes in Rome, where it was sometimes over 100 degrees.

I'm pretty certain that if there is a will there is a way.

Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.

When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.

The only film I ever made for money was something called Music From Another Room, which I really didn't like.