I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter.

I'd like to work with David Lynch again.

I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know.

I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.

Anything dark and emotionally complex, I'll do it. You're acting, but when you take an acting role, you have to live it. You're living the life of that person.

I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

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You've got to pick your roles really carefully. It's a lot more fun to play a layered woman, than just someone where what you see is what you get, by far.

Jennifer Garner and I are very close.

I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker.

Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.

Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

You can't speak openly about everything.

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.