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If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

I'm so misunderstood!

I'm not focused on what other people think of me.

I'm not well read.

I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.

There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

Every director works differently.

I'm very fast.

I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

My husband keeps me really honest.

Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

I'm very old fashioned.

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

I'm really lazy!

Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.

I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm Not There.' I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan on Monday.

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for the audience rather than to present it to the audience for their enjoyment and them to mull over the questions that the characters present.

Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.

Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.

I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.

Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.

I think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit.

There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.

I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.

I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.

No one wants to see me struggling to get a horse under control because I can't ride it. And no one wants to see me not knowing how to deal with the psychological makeup of the character.

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

I think my understanding of different types of love has certainly deepened.

I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.

I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.

I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?' But it's so exhausting, you can't be 'on' 12-14 hours a day.

I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it.

I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.

I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to protect that and preserve that. And I think the bravery really comes in one's mid career where you then are constantly trying to move beyond that and move past that, because those so-called successors can become shackles.

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.

I feel very comfortable - literally and metaphorically - in my skin.

I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership.

The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.

I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'

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