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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.

Hugh Jackman

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Hugh Jackman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 12
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At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.
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What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.
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One of the Canadian customs guards got suspicious and said 'Haven't you been coming and going across the border a lot lately?' I finally told him I was auditioning for Wolverine and everything changed. One minute it was get ready for the strip search, the next it was come on and sign six hundred autographs.
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I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
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I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very ordered life. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car.
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I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
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Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.
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If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.
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My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.
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To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.
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I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.
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As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.
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You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.
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Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.
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Boring' can be a lot of fun. Especially if it's on your own terms.
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To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
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The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.
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The Wolverine was fired from his job as a cashier in a newsagents after just six weeks because his boss said, he talks too much to customers. He can talk to me all day.
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