Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

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.

Love, an ocean.

She gritted her teeth. "You can't just... get into my bed like this." A ghost of a smile played across his face. "I already have, " he murmured.

Computers aren’t magic; teachers are.

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

Every opponent is a new opponent. Trust me, they don't give a crap how many matches I have won.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be fair, but that's the approximate level of pressure.)

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

I want to be your personal penguin. Please?