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" 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. "

Miranda Otto

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" I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did. "

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

" 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. "

Miranda Otto

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

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

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

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

" You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star. "

" 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. "

" It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go. "

" 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. "

" Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something. "