I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.

I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.

You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy.

Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.

I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.

I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.

I think it's important to keep an element of fear about yourself because it makes you appreciate the jobs.

My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

Someone has said, “Prayer is the highest use to which speech can be put.

Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?

If you can write

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

Atlanta is where I want to be. Believe that.

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

I don't like the way most people dress on the golf course. I think it's pretty bland, pretty boring.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.