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Toni Collette Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: australian
Birth: November 1, 1971

Topics

Me Think Right Things Different

When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.

Life Words Me Book Back Way

I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.

Feet Never Skinny Boyfriend Flat

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

Love Think Bad Television Way Shot

I really like being on set when you've all moved on a job because it makes you bond very quickly. You're all out of your time and comfort zone, so you kind of only have each other.

Anna Popplewell

Time Job Bond Comfort Zone You Kind

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

Nature War Human Nature Human Out

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

Work Women Hate Mind Connections

I'm a very practical, pragmatic capitalist. I was trained at Goldman Sachs. I went to Harvard Business School. I was as hard-nosed a capitalist as you get. I specialized in media, in investing in media companies, and it's a very, very tough environment.

Business School Tough Media You Get

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.

Teacher Day Me Face Guitar Giving

Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.

People Me Law End Conversation Up

As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don't need to pay these people, and they don't.

Work Stars Today Money People Need

If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.

Government Socialism You Down Want

We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as often as we thought, but now we're back, we're going to start using it more. I love the light, the countryside, the language and the fact that children are accepted everywhere. The Italians get passionate about everything, too.

Love Children Light Start Thought

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