Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

Some people would say I've made it now.

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organised chaos.

Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

I do regard myself as very lucky.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.

It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.

Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.

Sometimes some questions... shouldn't been answered... sometimes some stuff should be kept private... sometimes some people should just exist in specific places...

I'm always telling people who say two men can't make a baby: 'Anything is possible for God. I'm going to keep inseminating my husband and keep my fingers crossed.'

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

Food should be a love offering.