You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.

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.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

Being a one of a kind means we are automatically the best in the world at what we do.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

What's true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says.

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.

Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion.

All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.

Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.