To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

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.

Be selective in your battles...

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

Music was my whole life, not a career. It definitely was never easy... Still isn't.

The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain.

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.