one less hot daddy around...

In a recent interview with WJW-TV, a Fox affiliate in Cleveland, about "I'm Not There," in which he was one of several actors playing the music legend Bob Dylan, Ledger struck a philosophical note. He responded to a question about how having a child had changed his life:

"You're forced into, kind of, respecting yourself more," he said. "You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess. I think you also look at death differently. It's like a Catch-22: I feel good about dying now because I feel like I'm alive in her, you know, but at the same hand, you don't want to die because you want to be around for the rest of her life."

and now, he's gone ...