I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

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.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

The simplest person who worship God is wiser than the supposed wisest people who worshiped a worthless substitute.

There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.

He who aims too high will get a sore neck

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.

I feel so fortunate to be one of the lucky ones who is so grateful and appreciative to know such great synonyms for thankful.

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.