Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.

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 you ‘lie’ to me, you don’t ‘lie down’ or lay.Even after the game you still want to play.

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

Where I'm from, there's two things you don't mess with. You don't mess with a man's woman, or his hat DON'T TOUCH A MAN'S HAT!

We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?

I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.