It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

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.

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Better to have bad news that's true than good news we made up

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.

I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.

You know that question: What do you do when you think the client's guilty? The real question is: What you do when you think a client's innocent?

The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities--mob rule.

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.

You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?

Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.

I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.