Toni Collette
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 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 find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines.
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.
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 wouldn't play glamour for glamour.
'Krampus' had a certain originality about it, so I jumped on board.
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've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the moment.
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 love working. I love it! It makes me feel awake and alive and appreciative, as does my family, but in a different way. If I was told I couldn't do it, I think I would wither and die.
I'm starting to realise that there are certain themes that I return to, those being that there is no such thing as normal, and people finding their voice and living authentically. And also that you can be influenced and helped through an extended family.
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 hate it when the mother is just the mother in movies.
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.
Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.
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.
If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.
My face moves, unlike some actors' do. I guess it's kind of a response to what's happening internally.
To be able to create a character and tell a story is a crazy way to make a living. I feel so lucky to be able to do this.
I've done a couple of films in Philadelphia, and it's a great, great town.
Planning and worrying and chaos in your mind? Forget it. What's the point of that?
If I get dressed up, and my boyfriend says, 'You look gorgeous,' I kinda feel funny. I don't know if I'm particularly comfortable with being attractive.
I've been extremely happy and fortunate in terms of what I've achieved and the experiences I've been given.
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.Collection: Thinking
A life without glitter is no life at all.Collection: Glitter
We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.Collection: Life Is
To me, there are so many different things to believe in, but I think ultimately we're all energy and that energy keeps changing.Collection: Believe
My life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.Collection: Song
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Struggle
I think it's exciting to see actors do new things.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Matter
I've never really been a fan of violence.Collection: Fans
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.Collection: Believe
I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolatedCollection: Glad
Also, I think having a musicality about me, that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Differences
Sometimes it was so quiet, its frightening. It really prioritizes things.Collection: Scary