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"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
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"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."

"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."

"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."

"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."
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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?"

"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."

"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 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."

"I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me."

"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?"

"Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them."

"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."

"It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career."

"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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