Actor Hugh Jackman was born October 12, 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

• "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."




• "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."




• "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."




• "She has more fun than anyone I know on this planet. She's pure passion, that girl." (about his wife)




• "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."




• "It's such a great audience. I love it—looking out on this crowd I just see so many people who go both ways. Movies and theater."




• "I'm having a little bit of a flashback. This time last year I was standing right here dancing with the Rockettes and shaking my tush with Sarah Jessica Parker—sorry about that Matthew. But now I'm about to start another action picture soon, and dancing makes studio executives really, really nervous. After all, I'm Wolverine. And Wolverine does not do high kicks."