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" I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A. "

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" Sometimes, as a young woman, you are boxed in more to playing characters that are emotional and vulnerable. "

" I think most big stars do have just a certain amount of mystery; you don't know everything. "

" As your career goes on, you get to flex your brain a little more and play characters that are stronger and more intelligent. "

" 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. "

" The whole theatre world deeply attracts me. I love rehearsing and having time to make mistakes and laugh and discover things about yourself and other people - and the energy level is great. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 was cast in a film toward the end of high school. Even then, I wasn't sure. "

" Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work. "

" In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters. "

" 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. "

" Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking. "

" I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things. "

" 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. "

" There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television. "

" Usually, I end up looking for something completely different to who I last played. But there is just a spark that's lit when I read a script or character I want to play. "

" I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason. "

" It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact. "

" The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people. "

" England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages! "

" Certain characters get to me and stay with me for a while. "

" I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother. "

" 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. "