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" Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore. "

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" I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff. "

" On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength. "

" You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have. "

" I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends. "

" Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering. "

" I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession. "

" There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work. "

" Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up. "

" It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'! "

" There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising. "

" Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that. "

" You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person. "

" There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it. "

" Whenever I am in Paris, all I want to do is inhale a big plate of cheese. And in New York, my favourite thing is a toasted bagel with cream cheese. Not only do I not avoid carbs, I more or less have them in every meal. When I start denying myself foods, that's when I crave them. "

" I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine. "

" Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached. "

" Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on. "

" The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up. "

" When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through. "

" If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will. "

" We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more. "

" I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia. "

" That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself. "

" I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with. "

" Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting. "

" I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more. "

" I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore. "

" I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left. "

" There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's slightly scary. "

" I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28. "