Theatre actress Quotes

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy.

In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.

I loved Belle in 'Beauty and the Beast.

' I just wanted to be her. I'm a brunette, so I think I kind of cling to all those princesses that have brown hair. I just wanted to be them.

My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.

When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.

My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch 'Come Dancing.' It was actually my granny who was the biggest fan; she loved the show, and she passed on her passion for it to me. I loved the dancing but also the frocks and the glamour.

I'm mildly obsessed with skin care. I do a lot of masks at home, like Elisha Coy's Korean Collagen masks. I also use an embarrassingly wide variety of facial creams.

I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

Jealousy doesn't show how much you love someone, it shows how insecure you are.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes.

I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

I sort of was good at writing essays.

I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window.

I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'

I've been a single parent for a long time.

It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.

I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts.

You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.

I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mothers married friends and think, Why does she put him down in public? or, Why is he so rude to her? It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.

Im mad keen on recycling because Im worried about the next generation and where all this waste were producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.

' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.

It's fun! Just fun...I don't think of it as a cabaret act per se, I call it more of a gig, if that makes any sense

In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

I try not to put my purse on the floor - demons will get into it.

Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic.

Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.

I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge.

Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.