When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.

All anything takes, really, is confidence.

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.

I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.

I've always been intrigued by the supernatural.

Network marketing is the big wave of the future. It's taking the place of franchising, which now requires too much capital for the average person.

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage or, in my case, also on screen, you have to be true.

I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.

Being pursued while easy is purposeful. Intentional. Deliberate. Its not about getting a guys attention its a process of ensuring that hes the one. Of all the men holding glass slippers he has to be your perfect fit.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

One doesn't want one's identity coerced.

Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all.

Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever.

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes. I can't go into detail, but while I was growing up, I always tried to make it a goal to relieve some of the stress my mother went through.

We must be willing to let go of the life weve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.

Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.

The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.