Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

Cameron and I actually do wear the same size. It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.

Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things.

I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated.

We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

Hal Ashby is one of my favorite filmmakers.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.

I can't imagine a world without music.

I don't feel I owe anyone anything.

I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.

I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.

I hate sitting around labouring over things. I love just getting into it.

I have to say, I feel really lucky. I've had a lot of great characters to play.

I have trouble admitting I'm wrong.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.

I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.

I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing.

I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.

I love rides. I'm such an immature person.

I love working. I love it! It makes me feel awake and alive and appreciative, as does my family, but in a different way. If I was told I couldn't do it, I think I would wither and die.

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it's almost like I have no control over it. It's like they choose me.

I think being the conventional beauty is limiting, so I'm glad I'm not that. If I looked different, I wouldn't have the great opportunities I've had.

I think it's important to relax in general. I don't try to save up my relaxing for one month period of the year; it's kind of a daily practice that I've tried to remain aware of.

I think there's an inevitable fact that I somehow absorb part of what I'm doing, because that's what you're constantly thinking about, and that's what's in your veins, and that's what you get up at 4:30 in the morning for and fall into bed after.

I think when I was younger, I used to sort of long to be a part of films that were really gritty and hardcore in a way.

I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.

I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.

I wish I had more patience.

I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do.

I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the moment.

Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of money. I think they're more interesting because they're not watered down to appeal to the masses. They tend to have a unique voice.

Lars Von Trier is a genius. Every film he makes is so honest and powerful.

My life is fancy dress, so I prefer not to do it in my spare time.

My plan is to have no plan. If you know what plan you have, life has its own ideas and will take you in any direction it pleases. So my idea about life is to just be open to it and to go with the flow and go with my gut.

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

The people who are most attractive to me are those who feel most comfortable in their skin - there's a sense of self-acceptance.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

To tell you the truth, my father says I came out of the womb literally singing and dancing, as though there was a spotlight on me. When I ask what I was like when I was little, they just say 'loud.'