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42 Motivating Hugh Jackman Quotes That’ll Help You Succeed
Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, and dancer best known for playing Wolverine in the X-Men series. He’s also experienced great success in broadway. A fun fact about Hugh Jackman is he’s a Guinness World Record for having the longest career as a live-action superhero.
Check out these inspirational Hugh Jackman quotes that’ll help you transform your thinking:
1. “If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.” – Hugh Jackman
2. “I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I’m on a film set.” – Hugh Jackman
3. “Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I’m not Hugh Jackman. I’m not a dad. I’m not a husband. I’m just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.” – Hugh Jackman
4. “In life you don’t regret the things you do, you regret the things you don’t do.”- Hugh Jackman
5. “Anyone who thinks they’re indispensable is fooling themselves.”- Hugh Jackman
6. “I’m quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win.” – Hugh Jackman
7. “The definition of being good is being able to make it look easy.” – Hugh Jackman
8. “You know, sometimes when you cage the beast, the beast gets angry.”- Hugh Jackman
9. “The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.” – Hugh Jackman
10. “To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me – not success.” – Hugh Jackman
11. “There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can’t go through life obsessing about what might have been.” – Hugh Jackman
12. “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.”- Hugh Jackman
13. “Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward.” – Hugh Jackman
14. “I’ve always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.”- Hugh Jackman
15. “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.” – Hugh Jackman
16. “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 I’m 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.”- Hugh Jackman
17. “Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.” – Hugh Jackman
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19. “I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don’t 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.”- Hugh Jackman
20. “I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I’ve seen people I admire falter. We’re all vulnerable.” – Hugh Jackman
21. “Unless you’re willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you’ll never make it.”- Hugh Jackman
22. “To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.”- Hugh Jackman
23. “We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for.”- Hugh Jackman
24. “If somebody in your industry is more successful than you, it’s because he works harder than you.”- Hugh Jackman
25. “Life has ups and it has downs. I don’t care who you are.”- Hugh Jackman
26. “The best part about being married is that feeling of being a team. All couples have ups and downs, so having someone you trust is priceless.” – Hugh Jackman
27. “Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Thing are made slowly and in pain.” – Hugh Jackman
28. “To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.”- Hugh Jackman
29. “I can live with failure if it is born of conviction.”- Hugh Jackman
30. “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.” – Hugh Jackman
31. “The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don’t just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.” – Hugh Jackman
32. “Doing anything worthwhile takes forever.” – Hugh Jackman
33. “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.” – Hugh Jackman
34. “Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you’re really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you’re on the right track.”
35. “I remember at one point … everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, ‘Dad, why don’t you wear that at work?’ And he said, ‘Your religion should be in your actions.’ He set a great, great example.” – Hugh Jackman
36. “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.” – Hugh Jackman
37. “I’ve always felt embraced by the Broadway community even before I felt like I earned it.” – Hugh Jackman
38. “That’s the great thing about parenting. You end up going places you never thought you’d go.” – Hugh Jackman
39. “It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.” – Hugh Jackman
40. “My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.” – Hugh Jackman
41. “I’d sell my soul for a good cause.” – Hugh Jackman
42. “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, I’m not afraid to make a fool of myself.” – Hugh Jackman