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From Variety, March 2004:
...some imperfections to explore?
"Well, I suppose if someone said I was a pretty boy pretending
to be a character actor --- that would piss me off!" he laughs.
"But only I can say that."
Law, a
father of three himself, also appreciates the difficulties of handling
parenthood and a film career.
"Suddenly work has to compete with this extraordinary being in
your life and something that you want to spend and pour as much love
and attention and time to as possible and you can't monitor that from
a distance."
Snippet from Jude's interview in Playboy, on the subject of playing
Superman:
"Meanwhile, Jude Law was interviewed in Playboy, where
he discussed the role in similar terms as Paul Walker did: "My
greatest fear is that a role like that would define me. The closest
I've come to that is with this 'Sky Captain' character. We hope to do
a couple more 'Sky Captain' movies, but an original creation feels
different. The big question for me at that time was, 'Do I want to be
known from here on in as Superman?' I'd feel the same way about being
James Bond. They are iconic characters, and there is also pressure in
stepping into someone else's tights."
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Quotes From IMDb:
"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" - "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") "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")
"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 off of the ceiling you go, *clears throat* Yeah, great."
(about the paparazzi)
"I throw raw 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!"
"Well, I had to
do a nude scene [in the play "Indiscretions"], and
you're on stage naked but you get over it, you do whatever you have to
do. But the first night, my character is just getting out of the bath,
and the rest of the crew had poured in freezing cold water."
From Indiscretions...
