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Miranda Otto Biography

Miranda Otto (born 16 December 1967) is an Australian actress. Otto is a daughter of actors Barry and Lindsay Otto, and half-sister of actress Gracie Otto. She began her acting career at age 18 in 1986, and has appeared in a variety of independent and major studio films. Otto made her major film debut in Emma's War, in which she played a teenager who moves to Australia's bush country during World War II.

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As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

Actor, Actors, Bits, Role, Roles, Stretch

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

Actors, Hard, See, Sometimes, Working

I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

Forward, Look, Looks, Plenty

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

Beach, Child, Children, Like, Sun, Teacher

I think sometimes people haven't really quite worked out how to peg me, or exactly what it is that I do. In that way, I feel lucky that I can get to play different things because they haven't quite decided what I am.

Lucky, People, Play, Think, Thinking, Worked

I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

Different, Hate, Jobs, Thing

Acting is a freelance career. . . you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

Acting, Careers, Fight, Fighting, Stop, Work

With TV, the most important thing is just to get people to turn it on.

Important, People, Thing, Turn, Tvs

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

Fantastic, Funny, People, Stunt, Team

You can make the best show in the world, but if people don't actually turn it on and see it, they'll never know it's the best show.

People, Show, Shows, Turn, World

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

Doe, Film, Likes, Theatre, Think, Thinking

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

Cinema, Doe, Hate, Level, Power

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

Affirmation, Careers, Clap, People, Self

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

Book, Came, Character, Imagination, Things, Thinking

Theres such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

Doors, Move, Moving, People, Photos, Time

It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

Easy, Lose, People, Realizing, Stupid

The talent of the people in Brazil was extraordinary. I thought all of the hair and make-up was really fantastic. The aesthetic there is really something to behold. They just have such a great sense of taste.

Brazil, Hair, People, Talent, Taste

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

Become, Hit, Lines, Star, Stars, Tabloids

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

Teenage, Teenager, Things, Think, Thinking

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

60S, Big, Big Things, Bigs, Thing

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