Rose Quotes

People would make fun of me and throw things at me and whatever teenagers do.

Women watch plenty of television and theater. They're consumers, like everybody else. I think people don't thinking women go to the movies is a thing that still has to be addressed and changed.

I have to rein myself in sometimes.

Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

The writing is so great on TV now; it's such a pleasure to watch.

I definitely had creative people around me, but my parents were more just very encouraging.

I love TV as a viewer.

How competitive am I? A healthy amount. I have four siblings. It was competitive just eating dinner, like, "Everyone, get what you want from the chicken." Plus competing for your parents' attention.

The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.

The actor's life, but also the Australian's life. We're wanderers. We like to walk about - we're curious people. I have felt that since I was a teenager.

I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.

With a comedy, it's so important to see it with an audience and an audience who really wants to be there and is enthusiastic, otherwise it can be quite a traumatizing experience.

Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait.

I think diversity for most actors is such a blessing. It's something definitely I've strived for.

I see some of the clothes from the '90s is back in fashion. That really freaks me out because that's when I grew up.

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.

The British are so funny.

There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

I've already started saying that I'm 30 when I'm still 29. That way, I'm already there.

My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.

The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.

Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.

I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

Nearly all novels are too long.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.