Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

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.

Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

I have a great, great body.

I think especially boys have a competitive streak when they're 12.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

Children are unaccountable little creatures.

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

Fashion is, perhaps by necessity, in a world of its own - one that only rarely overlaps with anything resembling real life. This fantasy and exoticism is part of its appeal, of course.