I’m naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I’m lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.

The industry’s memory is quite short, it’s true.

A supermodel is kind of that first-name recognition, but I’m not quite ready for that super part yet, and I’m afraid that by the time I am, I’m going to be too old anyway.

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there’s a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.

I’d rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.

I don’t think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I’m quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. I’m...

It’s great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you’re all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you...

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because...

The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests.

Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.

I have quite a house. People come over and I go, ‘I know, I’m sorry.’

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

In Australia, a deaf person attending an interview must take their own interpreter at their own expense, or ask the employer to provide one. Believe me, nothing says ‘I’m the best person for this job’...

It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.

I’ve done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There’s always another interview to do. It’s quite something, I have to say.

Football management is such a pressurised thing – horseracing is a release. I’m also learning to play the piano – I’m quite determined – it’s another release from the pressure of my job.

I’ve mellowed quite quickly.

You look rather rash my dear your colors don’t quite match your face.

I’m quite dyslexic in school.

I’m quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

When I’m travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I’m very much geared to everything that’s happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record...

Compared to a lot of artists, I’m usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

My energies get used up quite quickly, and the psychic space I’m in when I write is a very lonely one, so I found that harder and harder to get back to.

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

I know a couple of my friends – quite a few – there is a conservative movement in Hollywood, and we kind of stay amongst ourselves.

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

I don’t know what it is, exactly, but there’s a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become...

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

I’ve got quite a good brain and all that, which I’ve never had to use in singing at all.

It’s quite different, the kind of love you get in a smaller club and the kind of love you get on a big proscenium stage. It’s quite different. I like both of them, but I’m...

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I’m not a massive fan of 3D. I’ve seen some good 3D, and I’ve seen quite a lot of bad 3D. I think if a film is created for the shock effect of 3D, then...

I have met a couple of six-year-olds who were apparently quite excited to meet me – before they actually met me. And when they actually met me they ran behind their parents’ legs and cowered...