It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.

I'm a huge sucker for comfort.

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.

I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.

the onewho will jolt awakeall the unwrittenthe unsungand the unlived in me. i am waitingfor him.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

A tear today is an investment in a laugh tomorrow.

Smile and others will smile back.

I'm an American before any party preference.

When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples’ yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.