Flaunt Magazine

"I just loved it and kept doing it. I blinked and I was getting paid. Doors kept opening and I kept walking through them." On how he found his second home on stage as a kid, US Weekly magazine, July 24, 2000

"It is a media thing. When people ask that, you're forced to make things up to please them. I have no answers to that. It's all constructed by the media." On being compared to other Australian actors, Chud.com, April 25, 2001

"Number one, I have to be inspired by a director, and I have to really trust them, respect them and feel at ease with them, and secondly, I have to have a feel for the material, because I never really know what I'm going to do next. I'm not someone who wants to plan my next piece.

I don't like to sit down and say, 'OK, now it's time that I should go for this kind of character because this is what I now need in my career.' If you start thinking that way, it tends to narrow your vision, and you can block out other options. I'm never after any one particular part." Heath on how he chooses his films.

“I’m never that spooked by a big scene,” he said. “I’m usually excited by it. I’ll give it a once over the night before. When I’m in a movie, I like to know how I’m going to do every scene, I like to be comfortable in my own skin on set and fully prepared before I get there. I don’t know, I usually just fall asleep. I don’t have that much problem getting to sleep.” Heath on how a star sleeps the night before a big scene.

"We are a specific breed. We are actually replicas...there are actually factories for actors in Australia and we are preprogrammed." On the supposed "new wave of Australian actors" hitting Hollywood, People.com, May 2, 2001

"The hype is not a natural thing that started from people seeing my movies. It was Columbia seeing The Patriot and saying, 'Oh we can put this kid in this next movie. Let's pump him in this movie and let's create him in the next one, let's create a f----n' star so we can sell this movie and rake in the bucks." The Globe and Mail, May 5, 2001

"It makes front page news if you eat fettuccine on Tuesday, you know? It's very invading. All of a sudden you're very self-aware, very self-conscious about the way you drink water. I'm not used to that." On the dreaded paparazzi, The Globe and Mail, May 5, 2001 "I don't read anything. I've only seen a couple of photos. Most of the time you don't even know the photographers are there -- and that's the scary thing. It's really strange and invading. But I don't let it bother me. I just try to find humor in it. I understand people's interest in our relationship. It's part of the game, I expect it." On dealing with public interest in his relationship with Heather Graham, Ian Spelling, April 30, 2001