Quotes

I'm an actor not a movie star. I prefer it that way. I think when you watch big stars on screen; it's really difficult to look beyond that very familiar persona. As an actor, you can play different characters and not be recognized. I know I've got parts that other bigger, more famous actors wanted. I think in some cases their fame is a hindrance because they're too identifiable.

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.

My family, my relationships with my friends, my home and my music are the most important things in my life. I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do. Women in the States seem to think 'I gotta meet a man, I gotta get married'. I don't get that, I was getting on with my life and having a great time. I really did not expect to meet my husband and it was probably the best surprise of my life. It is everything, it's fun, comforting, it makes me feel so safe and centered.

I don't know that I want to do it forever. When it gets too much, I just walk the beaches of Sydney and get calm again. You just grab your surfboard, splash in those waves and feel happy to be alive. That's what really matters.

I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines. When I watch a movie, someone's beauty isn't what engages me, it's what's going on internally. And I imagine it's what the audience thinks, too.

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

Sometimes life hits you on the head with a saucepan. But I'm not here to talk about saucepans.

Travelling's so much better when you know you've got a lovely home to go back to. I can just enjoy it for what it is, without depending on it too much.

I've always been a working actor. Big difference. I'm not interested in promoting myself or being famous. Don't get me wrong, I like getting tables at restaurants that have been booked out for months. But I don't want people to identify with me instead of the character I'm playing.

[on horror films] The only time I watched them was at sleepovers as a teenager. I have such a vivid imagination and I don't need to feed it with that kind of stuff. But something specific to both 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Hereditary' is that they are not solely horror films. They are beautiful portrayals of something really deep, and that makes them more complex, more interesting - and probably scarier.

[Speaking to Deadline about intimacy coordinators and how she doesn’t always think they are necessary.] I have to say, in a couple of scenes and different various jobs, I have been offered an intimacy coordinator. But I have felt so connected and safe with my creative partners that the intimacy coordinator felt like they were encroaching upon the process, and I've denied them access to the actual scene because I didn't feel like I needed them.