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" I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had. "
Miranda Otto
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Anything
Different
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" I just feel like TV takes more risks than film. Film has gotten very safe: it's very compartmentalized about what type of things will be successful. And whereas in TV, since all these new platforms opened, they're saying to writers, go out there, write the most different show that you can write. Write something that's really original and different. "
Miranda Otto
Saying
Risks
You
" Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them. "
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Someone
You
" I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters. "
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Characters
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" There are so many things from movies that are remembered, that are just looks on people's faces or incredible vistas or beautiful pictures. That is a very important part of cinema. "
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People
Cinema
" I ask myself, 'What is the value of acting and the attention that actors get? And yet there are so many people in the world doing incredible things for mankind, and they don't get much attention.' I do question about that, but I don't think I would've been a great doctor. I think I would've been a good surgeon. That fascinated me. "
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Myself
Good
Me
" I think that's the kind of women that people are interested in. They're interested in strong women characters who are stronger than the male characters sometimes, in some ways. That's what's interesting and attractive about women. "
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Stronger
Think
Women
" In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters. "
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Quirky
In The Past
Past
" I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A. "
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Think
Clever
I Think
" As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there. "
Miranda Otto
Work
Great
City
" You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember really strong images. Images have a way of bypassing your brain and hitting you emotionally. "
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People
Funny
Remember
" I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason. "
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Me
Theatre
Think
" There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world. "
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World
Women
Successful
" I tend to not think about the kind of movie things I want to be doing, because I've worked in all sorts of different places, and I've spent all sorts of time in England, and I'd still do things in Australia and in America. "
Miranda Otto
Time
America
Australia
" I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely. "
Miranda Otto
Spotlight
Made
Being
" The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected. "
Miranda Otto
Unexpected
You
Got
" Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read. "
Miranda Otto
Get Together
Know
Together
" Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does. "
Miranda Otto
Love
Words
Saying
" I think, with TV, you create kind of a family to work with. "
Miranda Otto
Family
Kind
Create
" I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential. "
Miranda Otto
Responsibility
Always
Script
" There's a film I did years ago, 'Love Serenade,' that I still really love. It's such an oddball sense of humor. It was a really special film for me when I did it. "
Miranda Otto
Love
Special
Sense Of Humor
" Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time. "
Miranda Otto
Young
Work
Time
" Sometimes, as a young woman, you are boxed in more to playing characters that are emotional and vulnerable. "
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Young
Sometimes
Woman
" There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move. "
Miranda Otto
Famous
Pressure
People
" When I was younger, people would always say, 'Are you a ballet dancer?' I had that look - one of those skinny kids with my hair in a bun. "
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Hair
People
Say
" Every director is completely different. "
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Director
Every
Different
" It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through. "
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People
Acting
Career
" I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always a really chaotic period on shows. "
Miranda Otto
Performance
Trying
Find
" I find, in film, we're always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I'm quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I'm just really loving it and feeling great, and it's all over. "
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Start
Job
Losing
" If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think. "
Miranda Otto
You
Character
Book
" When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee. "
Miranda Otto
Working
Lunch
Me