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" You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star. "
Miranda Otto
Become
Doing
Star
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" QVB have a long history of supporting Australian talent. "
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" I really like research. "
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" 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. "
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" Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school. "
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" 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. "
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" I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason. "
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" 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! "
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" People often say, 'I thought you were much taller.' So, I don't know. Maybe it's the way I stand or something. "
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" 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. "
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" It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity. "
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" I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A. "
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" 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! "
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Back
Everything
" Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them. "
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Someone
You
" I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters. "
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Kind
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" In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters. "
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Quirky
In The Past
Past
" Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people. "
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" England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages! "
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" I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters. "
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Characters
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" There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts. "
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Women
Interesting
Great
" Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something. "
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Pretending
Acting
Something
" 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. "
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You
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Easy
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" Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go. "
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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. "
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" Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family. "
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" 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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