Quotes
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'Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist
you have to experience suffering. It's not enough to have lived it once;
you have to relive it. Darkness is not a pejorative thing."
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"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing.
I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it" - on her early career.
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"It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to
happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll
be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!"
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"On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the
film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary
stuff I suppose but it's not my strength."
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"I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read,
the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff."
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"For the record, I am actually British as well as Australian. People always think
I'm Australian but I'm happy for the Brits to claim me back. I'm offering myself up."
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"Instead of thinking 'how can I slow the ageing process?' I think 'how can I bend the
rules?'"
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"Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the
roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going
to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets."
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"My mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some
time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up."
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"We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll
appreciate the life we have more." - in response to 21 Grams (2003).
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"I've had people who've seen 21 Grams (2003) say, 'Wow, you're so brave to be looking like that'.
This shocks me. I think that's what an actor's job is, to lose yourself in a role".
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"You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have." quoted in
the Feb 01, 2005 issue of WOMAN'S WORLD.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women,
I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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"Even during my most intense scenes with Sean Penn (in 21 Grams), we found ways to have fun. Sure,
I have my dark moments, but I'm the girl you'll see driving down the highway singing to Blondie."
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"It's always nerve racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than
with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's were my cellulite is'!" - after being asked
if it was hard to do a love scene with a woman (Mulholland Drive).
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