I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.

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.

There are women whose love only ends with death.

Everything's impossible until somebody does it.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.