Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I couldn't possibly have played someone with feelings towards a woman unless I had those feelings myself.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Even while we hate, we still have that deep unusual  compassion for our rivals, and they hate it when they realize that we are feeling sorry for them.

If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

Whatever you know, or don’t - only Love is real.

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.