If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

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.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

If things don't seem out of control, you're not going fast enough.

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.