There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.
I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.
When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.
Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.
My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.
We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!
You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.
My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think.
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.
Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.
The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.
I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.
I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.
People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.
Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.