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" That fascinated me. I used to watch all these operations on TV and thought it would be really cool to do that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university. "

" I tend to not think about the kind of movie things I want to be doing, because I've worked in all sorts of different places, and I've spent all sorts of time in England, and I'd still do things in Australia and in America. "

" Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read. "

" 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. "

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

" I have been really lucky to play roles younger than myself for most of my career. "