The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

I like to sleep. I like to do nothing. Nothing is my favorite kind of something.

I don't like concrete jungles.

I don't go for girls who have beach blond hair, that stereotypical girl thing. But, you know, whatever comes around.

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Is this not the reason I write, to leave a piece of me behind?

I've dreamt of us falling in love and being together in a million different ways, yet I still wake up in the one way without you.

I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.

Visualize a sphere, a dome of red energy surrounding you. Feel that you are consciously directing energy from the center of your body, in the area of your naval.

It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort

One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.

Throw a little shade when you need to.

I really got into 'The Walking Dead.' That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on 'Shameless,' and I think it's a brilliant show.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.