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I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.

For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right colour.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.

Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

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 have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.

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.