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All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.
You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they're zooming in on every pore, which you've got to forget about.
Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.
I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.
I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.
I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.
Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.
I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.
I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.
I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'
Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.
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.
I'm not dressing for anyone else. I don't really subscribe to other people's idea of what is beautiful. I just want to feel good.
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.
I think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit.
I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership.
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.
Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.
I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.
I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.
There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.
I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'
I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.
The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.
Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.
I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.
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 never want to work. Even when you're presented with these great opportunities, I think, 'I really love being in my pajamas with the kids.'
I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.
Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.
What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects.
I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.
When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.
Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.
I use the Philip Kingsley range of shampoos, and they've got a great elasticiser, which is fantastic. I wrap my hair in cling film and put that on.
The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.
I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon. It's the time to gather everyone together.
I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.