In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

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.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

God can turn everything that seems negative in our life around and make it positive, for our good

Writing to please all readers is like cooking without seasoning …

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]

I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a person.

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

We were working in entertainment, in the music industry, with popular music, it was important, but it was something that we also felt was a responsibility.