I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

A lot of times you tell yourself no with things, a lot of times you discourage yourself. I've told myself yes more than no, and with those yeses, I've been able to actually have a career.

Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.

Don’t worry, be happy! Embrace your weirdness.

Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.

I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, 'Oh, she's going to be a movie star.' No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent.

Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.