I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

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.

A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive.

For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.

I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.