When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.

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.

Suppose it’s your last day on earth. Have you done what all you wanted to do, you always dreamt of? If answer is NO, your time starts now.

Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.

When I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my gun.

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

It is interesting to see how far we've come as a society since then. But also how everybody keeps touching [Ronald] Reagan and trying to evoke him.

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind.

Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.