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" 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. "

Miranda Otto

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" My parents split up when I was young, and they are still good friends. I think it's often projected that these things have to be so acrimonious. It's so often not the case. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Miranda Otto

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

" 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. "

" I really like research. "

Miranda Otto

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Miranda Otto

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" People often say, 'I thought you were much taller.' So, I don't know. Maybe it's the way I stand or something. "

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

" I find, in film, we're always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I'm quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I'm just really loving it and feeling great, and it's all over. "

" 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. "

Miranda Otto

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