351 Quotes by Hugh Jackman

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Doing anything worthwhile takes forever.

One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better.

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

I tried making an album six years ago. It was just horrific. Trust me, it's smashed into smithereens. I paid big money to silence that one.

Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard!

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.

Transcendental Meditation gives you what you need, when you need it. It's literally changed my life. Some of the clearest ideas or epiphanies I've had in life happened during or after meditating. Everything becomes clear and the truth starts coming out.