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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.

Jude Law

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Jude Law
Age: 51
Born: 1972
Born: December 29
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David Jude Heyworth Law
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The greatest gift an actor can have is not revealing who he is but through the parts he plays. Unfortunately, we live in a world where everyone wants to know everything all the time and I think it takes away part of the fun of acting that we have to go through that all the time.
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There is something nice about wearing the same thing everyday, having that go-to.
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Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.
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A job is not just a job. It’s who you are.
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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.
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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.
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I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.
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There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]
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I'm a massive comic book fan. I was buying weekly installments of The Watchmen, and From Hell, and Parallax and Johnny Nemo. I was a huge comic book fan as a kid and I still am. Me and my youngest son are both comic book nerds together make models and stuff.
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My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.
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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.'
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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.
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Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.
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In a weird way, it’s kind of a relief to think, ‘Oh, I know I’m not that young sort of pretty thing anymore.’ It’s quite nice talking about what it was like to be the young pretty thing, rather than being it.
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There are always seasons to a career and perhaps always the grass is often greener, you're often looking at other people's careers going, Damn, they get all the good roles. Why didn't I read that? Why didn't they ask me to do that?
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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!
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Women like bad boys…Being a good boy never worked for me.
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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.
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I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.
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I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.
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