My husband keeps me really honest.

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.

When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, "What was worth loving?

Energy even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed will move mountains.

The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied.

I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

For me, Twitter is a public persona. I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion, but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.