A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.

I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.

I think we should all feel lucky and blessed that people are still, in this day and age, getting in their cars with other people and driving to a location and paying money to sit in a theater and watch a play.

I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.

There's plenty of girlfriend roles out there. They've come my way, and many people have turned them down, and I think, "Oh maybe I could do something with this." It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily judge people who do. I don't really think it makes people look better; they just look different.

I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different.

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

I'm not focused on what other people think of me.

“I'm not focused on what other people think of me.”

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.”

We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.”

“You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.”

“It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.”

“I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.”

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.”

“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends : have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.”

“The humanitarian, like the missionary, is often an irreducible enemy of the people he seeks to befriend, because he has not imagination enough to sympathize with their proper needs nor humility enough to respect them as if they were his own. Arrogance, fanaticism, meddlesomeness, and imperialism may then masquerade as philanthropy.”