Toni Collette Quotes

I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.

I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.

Travelling's so much better when you know you've got a lovely home to go back to.

My life is as good as an Abba song. It's as good as Dancing Queen.

I don't understand why I do what I do. I don't understand why I act anymore. But I do know that I love it, and that I find it really interesting and satisfying to enter into other worlds and explore different ways of thinking.

I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.

Cameron and I actually do wear the same size. It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.

What I do affects others; what others do affects me.

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.

I have never witnessed poverty like I did in Haiti. The kind that is so deep and wide-reaching that it feels impossible to make a difference. But I found that lives can and are being changed. It may take a lot of work and time but Concern has, and continues to make, serious progress because they stayed long after the world moved on.

I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.

I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

It's a funny time, but I'm sure in any time you live in, you'd consider it funny because life is change and it'll just keep doing that. It's a matter of embracing it or not.

I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated.

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do.

I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.

I think the most interesting thing about any story is how people change. That's usually a struggle, because change is pretty much an uncomfortable thing.

I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of pasting on an idea.

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

I think it's exciting to see actors do new things.