Explore Quotes by Abbie Cornish

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?

I've got heaps of dreams.

To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.

Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

I had an amazing childhood.

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.

Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and age it's hard to believe that, but I think because I grew up on a farm, I wasn't indulged in magazines, newspapers, Internet, television. And so, for some reason, I was never exposed to what a vegetarian was.

I love love stories, no matter how dark.

I think it's really important to live in the moment.

I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.

I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.