When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

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.

Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.

Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.

Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.

When you think about it, Alaska is also near the North Pole, so she must also be friends with Santa.

Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.