Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.

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.

How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.

The jar shall never ceased to be filled with oil.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.

You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.

When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.