I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.

I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.

I'm a huge sucker for comfort.

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

Is there anything like a collective brain?

Sometimes the hardest thing within doing something challenging is deciding to commit to do it.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

Vote for the candidate you believe would be the best candidate. That's the way it should work.