When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

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.

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

Headlines don't sell papes. Newsies sell papes.

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span.

I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we’re in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.