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Success comes in waves.
I never really enjoyed the fame stuff.
I suffer from overheating quite easily.
Well, I never wear shoes at home. Never.
The thrill of coming home has never changed.
Where do you even draw the line between genres?
I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.
Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.
I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.
I am geared towards communicating on a female level.
Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.
Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.
I've always been resistant to parties and schmoozing.
I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.
You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.
I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.
The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?
Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing
It's interesting playing something that the audience doesn't fully know.
I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.
If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.
You never say never, but I don't think I'd want to do a long-running series.
I don't believe in God, but the thing I do believe in is that we're all connected.
I don't have many friends. Most of them are gay and I get on much better with women.
I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.
Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective.
I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.
When you're promoting a film it's really interesting trying to gauge what people think about it.
I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.
I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home - and literally close to home.
Memory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.
I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.
I do like a variety of things so I'm always interested in finding something that I haven't done before.
My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate.
I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.
On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?
You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.
There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.
I think that you can say something in one line with a look that you might need three lines on a page for normally.
I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I've just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.
I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.
A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.
Australia's not so bad with me, really, people are pretty cool with me at home, but in England it feels a little bit scary.
I just can't talk about things before I do them, because just for me... I give energy away before I've put energy into the job.
If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.
I reckon it's more of an external perspective that on some level you really can control and dictate how your career's going to go.
The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.
I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.
I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.
Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.