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At the 2007 Venice Film Festival, Ledger expressed interest in directing a documentary about the English musician Nick Drake, who died of a an accidental prescription drug overdose.

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I’ll admit it. I’m a hopeless romantic who believes that love is worth fighting for, nothing comes easy, each day tests us to become better people if we are playing it right.

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After working with Tom Cruise, a Hollywood dialect coach (whose name I won’t reveal) once described him to me as being “emotionally frozen in time” at the age he was catapulted to stardom — around 21. Is that what happens to all these young mortals who are inflated to god-like status?

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My story is not unique. This was true of many men of our generation.

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It could be so much worse.

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Like you, I have a few secrets I never tell anyone. But dear readers, there’s one secret I want to tell you. It taught me a great truth: There’s nothing to fear from failure. I know this firsthand.

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When isn’t he great? It’s the one thing in life you can count on: The sun rises, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is wonderful. These are the laws of nature.

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Be cool with the possibility of rejection. Don’t let fear or regret or worry ruin other chances.

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Bridget Jones is my spirit animal. I feel like I get her in ways I’m not supposed to understand movie characters.

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If art and politics require modesty, physical accomplishment requires the knowledge you will do anything to achieve your goal.