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Every director is completely different.
I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.
I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.
I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.
I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.
QVB have a long history of supporting Australian talent.
I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.
I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.
It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity.
With TV, the most important thing is just to get people to turn it on.
As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.
Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.
In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.
Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.
It's a little daunting coming on to work with actors that you respect so much.
England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!
It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.
Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.
I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.
The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.
I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential.
I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A.
Sometimes, as a young woman, you are boxed in more to playing characters that are emotional and vulnerable.
People often say, 'I thought you were much taller.' So, I don't know. Maybe it's the way I stand or something.
That fascinated me. I used to watch all these operations on TV and thought it would be really cool to do that.
I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and their humour.
You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.
I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.
There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.
I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.
I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.
I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.
I worry about my sides. I worry where everything goes. I worry that I'm going to be the leak. I give all my scripts back!
Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.
Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't.
As your career goes on, you get to flex your brain a little more and play characters that are stronger and more intelligent.
I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university.
Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.
It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.
You can make the best show in the world, but if people don't actually turn it on and see it, they'll never know it's the best show.
I haven't found the experience of being hot very great. It usually means you are about to be overexposed. I would rather be respected.
When I was younger, people would always say, 'Are you a ballet dancer?' I had that look - one of those skinny kids with my hair in a bun.
I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.
As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there.
Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.
Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.
I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.
Theres such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.
There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.
Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.