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    Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.

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    Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

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    A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.

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    After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

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    All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

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    An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

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    And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

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    Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.

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    Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are different from us.

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    As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

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    At the moment there are 1 in 8 people who have no access to clear drinking water, about a billion people worldwide, which can make you feel quite overwhelmed.

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    Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

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    Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.

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    Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

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    Everyone gets obsessed with anti-aging but I'd rather look as good as I can at the age I am.

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    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.

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    Fashion is one thing, you kind of can change your silhouette and try this and try that. But I think that with skin care, you know anything that you put into your skin goes into your body, so you want to know it's actually good for you. So I think I don't believe in fashion when it comes to skin care if that makes sense.

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    For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

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    Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.

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    His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.

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    I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

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    I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

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    I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

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    I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

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    I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

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    I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

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    I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.

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    I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

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    I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

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    If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

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    If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

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    If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.

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    If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

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    If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

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    If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.

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    If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness.

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    I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

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    I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

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    I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

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    I like to put perfume on my pulse points, but I also love the way you can sense it - there is an atmosphere that comes from releasing a scent in to the world - it's a primal thing. I spray around me, not just on me, and it lingers in the room after I leave.

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    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.

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

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    I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. 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.'

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    I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.

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    I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

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    I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

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    I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

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    I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.'

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    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.

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