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" I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters. "

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" Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school. "

" It's a little daunting coming on to work with actors that you respect so much. "

" It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity. "

" I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely. "

" Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it. "

" Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something. "

" I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In everything I do, I like to set the idea for girls that they can do anything. I was really moved by Hillary Clinton's speech when she lost the election - she didn't want young girls to feel like it wasn't possible and wanted them to know a female president will eventually happen. That's important. "

" Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them. "

" People often say, 'I thought you were much taller.' So, I don't know. Maybe it's the way I stand or something. "

" There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world. "

" In Australia, it's people from Asian countries who most often recognise me. There are often people just looking at me at the supermarket, like they're shocked to think I would go to the supermarket. "

" 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. "

" I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think. "

" QVB have a long history of supporting Australian talent. "

" I think, with TV, you create kind of a family to work with. "

" Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't. "

" Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family. "

" I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential. "

" Every director is completely different. "

" I haven't found the experience of being hot very great. It usually means you are about to be overexposed. I would rather be respected. "

" 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. "

" 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. "