Quotes by Hugh Jackman

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn’t an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: Id 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 thats what acting is: a small business.

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. Ive worked in Europe, Ive worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but Im going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I dont get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you dont have to do as much, like you dont go on as many outings.

I once sang Summer Nights, from Grease, at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, whos 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.

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me Id be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

Im a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me its pure.

Im doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called The Boy from Oz, where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who dont know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, Im not afraid to make a fool of myself.

I do heavy weights in the morning for about an hour, and then I do 45 minutes of higher-volume lifting in the afternoon. My least favorite is the legs... I do quite a few chin-ups and rows. I do mostly old-school lifting with a lot of squats.

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we dont have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. Were very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, Dad, why dont you wear that at work? And he said, Your religion should be in your actions. He set a great, great example.

I have two children and its amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I dont think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I dont think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. Sympathy For The Devil is a great one.

I have done many movies that people hadnt seen. The Fountain, I spent a year on that. The Prestige with Chris Nolan, and Australia. From my perspective its very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they dont. Wolverine, X Men, I know that in some level people know me just for that and its fine for me.