I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

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.

Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.

Do not make the Great Commission your Great Omission.

The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Comedy can simultaneously allow you to dive headfirst into the world's pain and escape it.

You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

Lindsay Lohan was the 'It' girl from, like, 14. That's a lot of pressure.

Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.