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"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
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"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
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"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."
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"Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater."
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"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."
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"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."
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"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."
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"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
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"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
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"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
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"The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years."
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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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"It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career."
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"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
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"You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine."
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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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"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."
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"I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me."
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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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"It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing."
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"Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them."
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