Toni Collette

“There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.”

“Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things.”

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

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

“I can't imagine a world without music.”

“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 played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader.”

“I just never want to repeat myself. I also don't want to be bored in life. The great luxury of being an actor is you get to be different people, and I would hate to be repetitive.”

“I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing.”

“Mothers are so awesome. They do so much. They wear so many hats and have very passionate relationships with their kids, and with life, and I think it's a real balance having your own existence and then being this responsible, kind of loving person in someone else's life or several other people's lives.”

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

“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.”

“I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.”

“In a lot of films, forever it's been boy-meets-girl, and thank God for films like - I know it's going to sound ridiculous - 'Frozen.' I was so excited for my daughter to be able to watch a love story between two sisters instead of some stupid prince.”

“My 20s were totally bonkers. I was living out of a suitcase and burning the candle at both ends. But I tell you - I am totally over it.”

“I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.”

“Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.”

“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 really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it's almost like I have no control over it. It's like they choose me.”

“I don't feel I owe anyone anything.”