I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

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.

Adversity is the mother of prosperity

Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

The Hebrew Bible defines Judaism. It's certainly true that the Talmudic interpretations become authoritative and normative, but they are interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. So that is always there.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.