Margot Robbie Quotes

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.

The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.

I really want to do a Western. I want to be the dude who is riding horses and doing exciting things - something where I get to do something physical and have to train for it. I don't want to be the damsel.

I live with three boys, and I can't tell you how hard it is to get your hands on toilet paper. They steal it.

I get very into my sports.

Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.

I kind of like pony tails, beards, maybe a tattoo. My massive obsession - I'm really targeting a niche market here - a hair lip.

People ask me all the time what it is about Australia that produces so many big stars. Honestly, I believe it is a combination of things. Our education standards are quite high, but our industry is very limited. Yet we're very aware of the industry - everyone goes to the theater, sees TV shows.

I was devastated when I had to go blonde.

I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway.

There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!

It was actually nice to get a fresh, clean slate when I came to America.

I'm definitely looking forward to doing a film one day with more female actors.

I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It's like, in real life, I've got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who's twice their age, and they're equally in love.

I have no concept of modesty anymore.

Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.

The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones ... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.

If I looked good in 'Wolf of Wall Street,' I cannot take full credit; it was because of the hair extensions and makeup.

There is something about being people from your home country in a different country. It bonds you together.

If people are talking about me, I want it to be because of the work I'm doing and not the person I'm seeing.

Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.

I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.

It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on a soap than it is on a big studio film.

I say this about everything: when I was on 'Neighbours,' I said, 'These are the best years of my life!' When I was filming 'The Wolf Of Wall Street,' I said, 'These are the best months of my life!' I always think I'm having the best time ever, and that I'll never have so much fun again.

Ironically, I don't like having cameras in my face.

My mum is just the sweetest person on Earth, and if I turned into her, I wouldn't be that upset at all; in fact, it would be an honour.

I swear I'm not bossy in any other aspect of my life - it's just on set.

I always have more fun when I stay in hostels - you just meet so many more people. A hotel makes sense when you're doing work things, but travelling, you don't really get a feel for a place if you're in a hotel. I find it seems to make it all feel like everywhere else.

I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me.

If there aren't roles you want to play, then you've kind of got to create them.

My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It's a bit of a mess to watch!

It's always good to have a story arch.

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.

I love flying so much. I even like airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can't have emails go through. It's undisturbed.

You should have seen me at 14, with braces and glasses, gangly and doing ballet!

'Wolf of Wall Street' opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities.

I'm never happier than when I'm on set.

I gravitate towards monochromes. I always sort of either wear white or black or cream. I really like wearing colorful things as well, but I'm a sucker for cream-colored.

Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.

The two things I've been told most often since my career took off - by taxi drivers, lifelong friends and everyone in between - have been, 'Don't ever change, Margot' and 'You can't do that anymore, Margot.'

I made a conscious decision not to date actors.

All your mannerisms change easily when you have inch-long acrylic nails.

I get miserable if I don't eat.

I'm not extravagant. I share my house in London with five roommates. I take the Tube. I intend to stay the exact same person I always was.

It's just terrible: I miss flights all the time, more than I probably catch one.

It's not about being rich, but everyone back home has a pool. And I was a total water baby. My mom couldn't get me out - she'd put my dinner plate at the end of the pool, and I'd eat my meals in the water.

I'm pretty open, and when I do interviews, I end up blabbing.

People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile; it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.

There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but there's nothing behind them.

People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.

I'm a bit of a tomboy.

People don't really know about 'Neighbours' in America, and if they have heard of it, it's only in the context of 'Oh, sure, that's what Guy Pearce was on', or Kylie Minogue.

Chemistry is so important and so unpredictable. Sometimes you get in a room with someone where aesthetically you make perfect sense as a couple, and then you read, and you're both kind of sitting there like, 'This isn't working for some strange reason; it just doesn't really pop.'

I now know how to steal a watch when someone's wearing it. It's an excellent talent to have.

Initially I thought: 'I would never get cast opposite Will Smith! No one would ever buy it with the age difference, our personalities.' I can't think of a couple that makes less sense in every way, shape and form.

There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an actress. That's what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn't become an actor so I could show you me.

I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

Obviously social media has had a massive impact on the fame game, but not in a positive way. But it can be for some.

There is a real sense of family when you're around Australians, even if you don't know them.

I'm not a massive 'Star Trek' fan.

A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

If someone's gonna pick between me and Emma Stone, they're gonna pick Emma Stone.

I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such a good lifestyle.

If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.

If I have to get into a bikini, then I eat carrot sticks for three days.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

As much as I'd only like to concentrate on the creative side of acting, the whole business in general is just that - a business - and you have to do your homework if you want to be successful.

I try to remind myself that all of this could be over tomorrow, because I could wake up and magically be 35 feet tall and not be able to act in movies anymore.

When I eat, I have to chop up everything on the plate and stir it all together. It devastates my mom. Everyone at the table is like, 'That looks like cat vomit.' And I stir my Coke with a spoon until it's flat.

I don't have a very good diet.

Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.

You don't leave Australia unless you are passionate. Any Australian actor who comes to America is really committed. There are no dabblers - it's all or nothing.

My jet lag is getting a bit ridiculous. But, you know, it's first-world problems. It's a wonderful problem, 'Oh I have to travel around the world; how awful.'