351 Quotes by Hugh Jackman

If I’m a lush at anything, it’s food and drink. I’m not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

If I go to a party I don’t feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don’t remember putting up my hand and all that often but I’d just find myself there.

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.

Anyone who thinks they’re indispensible is fooling themselves.

I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It’s an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that – we probably had the word ‘cappuccino’ about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I’m naturally a lot more Tommy Tune than I am Wolverine.

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I’m naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn’t even want to count. I need to balance that out.

I once sang ‘Summer Nights,’ from ‘Grease,’ at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who’s a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny – sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar – while I got stuck playing Sandy.