'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices..

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'..

Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to si….

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: ….

I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always m….

Emily [Blunt] is such a giggler, she has such a positive life force about her and she's so giggly in a naughty sort of schoolgirl way that it kind of….

Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters ….

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me..

Well, let's say Asian. Some are Japanese. Some are Chinese. Some are Thai. Some are Vietnamese. He runs the gamut. And I actually happen to have a ve….

The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America..

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant..

I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2..

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment..

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

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman..

It's fascinating. It's also exhilarating when you see people making the exact same choices that you've made. It kind of validates what you've decided….

I love when I am not typecast. I've been acting for 50 years. I was such a baby face; I was playing children until I was in my 30s, which frustrated ….

I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us..

I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'.

My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performanc….

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