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

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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. "

" I'd always had a big thing for the '60s. "

" Soho House is normally a private-members club, but the Berlin one has a hotel open to the public. Many beautiful rooms in a cool location, and who knows who you'll run into in the lobby! "

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

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

" 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. "

" That is definitely something that I feel more comfortable with now. When I did 'Lord of the Rings,' it was something I wasn't quite prepared for, I didn't know how to deal with that sort of attention, and I kind of shied away from that, but I'm better at dealing with that now - a lot better. "

" I worry about my sides. I worry where everything goes. I worry that I'm going to be the leak. I give all my scripts back! "

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

" 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. "

" Every director is completely different. "

" I really like research. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and their humour. "

Unpredictability

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

" I love buildings that aren't purpose-built. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something. "

" 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. "