Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

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.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain.

The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.

[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.

Everybody starts out as strangers.

You will never be on this anchor desk, because you're Chinese.

People talk about the All Woman video to this day.

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.