Jude Law » Quotes

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

I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.

(...) you go to the National with your parents and think: 'I'd love to be here.' And then suddenly you are. It's a dream come true.

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

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.

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

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.

I have no problem with nudity. My friend Ewan and I are starkers in most of our films.

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.

On his role in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) - "I told Anthony that if I play Dickie Greenleaf, I want to eat in the best restaurants and drink the best wines every night because he would".

{About working on Enemy at the Gates (2001)) "Yeah, I got blown up, cut up...I remember actually, when I had to go the Ripley premiere which was happening at that time, I arrived with this huge gash in my head. Very cool, really".

(About his injury during Dickie's death scene in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)) "Matt (Damon) broke my rib! But I think I strained his neck, we got a little bit carried away".

(about how he got the role of Gigolo Joe) "Through one of those fantastical phone calls when your agent calls you and says 'Stephen Spielberg is on the phone, he wants to speak to you about his next film.' And once you've peeled yourself of the ceiling you go, *clears throat* Yeah, great."

(about the paparazzi) "I throw root vegetables at them."

Bosie (from the movie Wilde) was the first part I was ever offered, which I suppose is sort of an insult because he's just the nastiest bastard!