Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Toni Collette
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Last updated on September 11, 2024.
I don't feel I owe anyone anything.
I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.
The people who are most attractive to me are those who feel most comfortable in their skin - there's a sense of self-acceptance.
I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.
Travelling's so much better when you know you've got a lovely home to go back to.
I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.
Lars Von Trier is a genius. Every film he makes is so honest and powerful.
After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script.
I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.
I think when I was younger, I used to sort of long to be a part of films that were really gritty and hardcore in a way.
I think being the conventional beauty is limiting, so I'm glad I'm not that. If I looked different, I wouldn't have the great opportunities I've had.
If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.
I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.
The way a character looks reflects what's on the inside. I can make myself look really bad, and I can make myself look kind of gorgeous. It's not about me; it's about the character.
I believe in nurturing the inner world.
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.
Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of money. I think they're more interesting because they're not watered down to appeal to the masses. They tend to have a unique voice.
Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, and you know everyone's done it just because they were passionate about it and they cared for it, if it has any kind of audience, it's just a wonderful outcome.
I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the moment.
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.
I have trouble admitting I'm wrong.
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.
I wish I had more patience.
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 can't imagine a world without music.
My plan is to have no plan. If you know what plan you have, life has its own ideas and will take you in any direction it pleases. So my idea about life is to just be open to it and to go with the flow and go with my gut.
My life is fancy dress, so I prefer not to do it in my spare time.
Cameron and I actually do wear the same size. It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.
Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things.
The one thing I want to do - and I am doing - is starting my own production company, for me to produce and direct in the future. Have a bit more say and control - become the storyteller more than just the character. I want to choose the story, plant the seed, and watch it grow. I just want to have a bit more involvement.
I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.
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.
I think it's important to relax in general. I don't try to save up my relaxing for one month period of the year; it's kind of a daily practice that I've tried to remain aware of.
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.
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.
Oh, I definitely want to direct. I have young children. My job is already big enough, and I imagine it will be even more so as a director, and I don't want to miss out on them growing up. I'm going to wait until they're a bit older before I leap into that seat.
I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.
When I look at a character, I never look at the size of the role. I always look at the whole person, no matter how much they're featured in the movie.
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 hate sitting around labouring over things. I love just getting into it.
I wouldn't play glamour for glamour.
The potential strength of female friendship and the bonds that can be formed, especially over a lifelong relationship, is very profound.
'Krampus' had a certain originality about it, so I jumped on board.
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.
People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.
I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.
Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.
I love rides. I'm such an immature person.
To tell you the truth, my father says I came out of the womb literally singing and dancing, as though there was a spotlight on me. When I ask what I was like when I was little, they just say 'loud.'
I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated.
I think there's an inevitable fact that I somehow absorb part of what I'm doing, because that's what you're constantly thinking about, and that's what's in your veins, and that's what you get up at 4:30 in the morning for and fall into bed after.
I have to say, I feel really lucky. I've had a lot of great characters to play.
Hal Ashby is one of my favorite filmmakers.
An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.
I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines.
The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
When I watch a movie, someone's beauty isn't what engages me: it's what's going on internally. And I imagine it's what the audience thinks, too.
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.
I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.
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