Toni Collette Quotations

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

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 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 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.

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 try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

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

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

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

Sometimes it was so quiet, its frightening. It really prioritizes things.

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.

We grew closer than actors usually do with co-stars - at least female co-stars.

Now that I know her, I admire her even more. She's a really great down-to-earth lady who's really opinionated, strong, warm. ... She's a living legend.

I expected her to be a little more airy-fairy, but she's not. She's really grounded. She's a very matter-of-fact person, actually,

I was over the moon. I know it's just a job, but it's become one of a handful of filming experiences which has become somehow bigger and more important in my life.

Who wants to wear heels on a day like this.

We saw everybody you can think of. But Toni was always the one in my mind. I knew she could disappear into this part, make it fresh and, at the same time, make Rose endearing even while she's filled with self-loathing.

Both of the girls learn about how the other lives, learning about how the other person is in their shoes. Also the journey they're both going on, even though it appears to be different, is very similar in that they're coming to learn how to be in their own shoes.

Now I say I actually, really will never do it again.

As a human being, you are certainly entitled to your own opinion. It's just that you're blown out of proportion in the media sometimes. Even if I weren't an actor, I'd still be active in things that are important to me.

It was inspirational and beautiful and my relief amongst telling this emotionally-charged film. But at the same time, it was so isolated.

It's about loving and letting go. I think it's about family and those relationships that are incredibly joyous and incredibly intense and confronting. It's about people learning to be comfortable in their own skin.

I learned a lot. I'm glad that I did it.

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

I don't know if I want to do this forever,

I don't know. I think there's some kind of collective consciousness that gets out there and people kind of delve into the same areas at the same time.

I've never really been a fan of violence. I'm more into the characters and their journey and those kinds of movies don't really allow for that. It's a different focus.

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

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.

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

As far as kids go, at an early age they have to develop a sense of individuality. It's just something that everyone goes through. But I think the older I get, the more I appreciate the fact that we really are just so connected.

It's strange, because it seems that society is kind of promoting or nurturing this kind of ostracized existence. People are kind of very much in their own little worlds.

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.

I've never really been a fan of violence.

I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are challenged in some way and, I guess, who kind of move through those challenges.

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

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 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 think I'm true to myself - you hear that actors have like plans. I'm gonna do this type of movie, then I'm gonna play this kind of character, and that'll get me from A to B. I've never done that. I honestly just follow my gut and I don't think you can go wrong with that.

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 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.

To me, there are so many different things to believe in, but I think ultimately we're all energy and that energy keeps changing.

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