Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

The comforting thing for Australian actors is that there's a strong community in L.A. as well - it's almost like you swap one home for another. I didn't feel any pressure.

I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.

Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.

Do wrong to thyself, do wrong to thyself, my soul, but thou wilt no longer have the opportunity of honoring thyself.

Happiness is a nothingness without completeness.

Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice..You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice.

You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.

The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.