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Author's popularity: 4
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Popularity: 4
Vote: | Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8 year olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me. |
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Vote: | Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings. |
Popularity: 8
Vote: | Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I have shocking teeth.... I'm being a little facetious-I just went to the dentist the other day, and he looked at my teeth and went, 'Oh, my God, you've got gray teeth.' |
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Vote: | I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | I think I was 5 and singing 'Camelot' on stage. It was always a good way to meet girls. I did musicals, plays. My school encouraged it. We'd do our own productions. It wasn't until I was about 23 that I thought, 'I could give this a shot. I might as well do it.' |
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Vote: | I used to feed my action figures to the squids that were off of the bay I lived near. I tore off their arms and replaced them with other limbs, stuck them with pins, freezed them and did other awful things to them. Nothing struck me as more weird than to walk into my trailer and see a full-blown punching back of myself. |
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Vote: | I'm a big goofball, you know. Don't tell anyone that, but I'm a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag. |
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Vote: | I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did. |
Popularity: 9
Vote: | My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you...if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.' |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | My private life is actually pretty dull. I'm incredibly happily married. Mine is a one-story story, so I don't think I'm going to be hounded about my private life. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me. |
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Vote: | We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind. |
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Hugh Jackman (born 12 October, 1968) is an Australian actor who portrayed Wolverine in X-Men (2000) and ' (2003). His other works include Swordfish (2001), Kate and Leopold (2001), Someone Like You (2001), and Van Helsing (2004).
Biography Jackman was born in Sydney, Australia, the youngest of five children of English-born parents. His mother left the family and went back to England when he was eight years old, and he remained behind with his father, an accountant. Jackman graduated from the Sydney University of Technology with a BA in Communications, having majored in journalism. In 1994, he graduated from WAAPA.
Jackman married actress Deborra-Lee Furness in February of 1996. They met on the set of his first TV acting job in Corelli, an Australian television program. Jackman played an angry prisoner who fell in love with his counsellor, played by Furness. He and his wife adopted Oscar Maximilian Jackman, who was born on May 15, 2000.
Jackman played Gaston in the Melbourne production of Beauty and the Beast, and Joe Gillis in the same city's production of Sunset Boulevard. He first became known outside of Australia when he played the leading role of Curly in the Royal National Theatre's acclaimed stage production of Oklahoma! in London, demonstrating his talent as a singer as well as an actor.
He was a last-minute addition to the X-Men cast. Dougray Scott was originally cast as Wolverine, but Scott was tied up on the set of ' for two additional months of shooting. Hugh stands a foot taller than Wolverine, who is reported by Marvel Comics to be 5' 3". Despite this, Jackman's performance was highly praised and the film's success immediately made him a star.
In 2004, Jackman won a Tony Award for his Broadway portrayal of Australian songwriter and performer Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz.
2005 saw him cast in the lead role of The Fountain, directed by Darren Aronofsky. Jackman starred alongside Rachel Weisz and Ellen Burstyn.
He has also been rumored as a possible successor to Pierce Brosnan in the role of James Bond. As of April 2005, the role of James Bond in the next film, Casino Royale, has currently not been cast.
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