Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

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.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The “growing” we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as “shrinking, ” as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

When people say they hate life, to what are they comparing it to? The alternative isn't any more appealing.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

The things you’re most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others

I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid.

Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.