Zitat des Tages über Cate Blanchett:
I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.
I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.
Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.
I never wanted to be a movie star.
I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.
I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.
Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.
This is government. There is no entertainment.
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
A dancer's life is as peripatetic and unstable as that of an actor's. You're freelancing yourself all the time, and a dancer's lifespan is even shorter than an actor's: once they turn 30 or 35, they have to stop.
I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!
Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.
I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.
The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.
Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.
There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.
I don't ever want to be too unhealthy because writing in a show, starring and producing, you need a lot of energy.
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.
I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do.
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
I love to hang out and talk to people on set, especially when I start a new job to get to know them. I like to learn things from the crew so I sit around and ask them technical questions, when I think of them.
There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.
At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.
The big things that I've learnt from my dad is that you can just say what you want to say.
I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.
If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.
My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I'm so happy my mom didn't throw that out.
There are a ton of A-list stars I'd love to dress - fashionistas like Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson. Also, Cate Blanchett would be fun and fabulous. My picks vary by the day and how I'm feeling. But, as a new, young designer, I'm open to working with everyone!
You do only live once, and I feel like if I'm able to make a difference on this planet and leave it just a little better than I found it, then I've done my job.
I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best.
