It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.

I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.

You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy.

Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.

I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.

I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.

When I became too much myself, I had to change my life.

Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life.

The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.

Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

I'm not Russell Crowe. I'm not going to do a period piece.

The right way to proceed when we face the kind of challenges we face is to pursue the strategy which Ronald Reagan pursued when we faced the challenges of the last century.