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Mary Rose Byrne (born July 24, 1979) is an Australian actress. Byrne made her screen debut in 1992 with a small role in the film Dallas Doll.

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I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.

Actress, Actresses, Celebrity, Character, See

TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.

Completely, Different, Discipline, Think, Thinking, Work

Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.

Anything Can Happen, Happen, Happens, Things Happen, Time

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

Actors, Lessons, Mostly, Rejection, Stuff, Work

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

Confident, Cynical, Narcissism, Older, Planet, Twenties

There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.

Giving, Attention, Compliment, Flooding, Away

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

Machine, Machines, Needs, Suffering, Writer

I have to rein myself in sometimes.

Rein, Reins, Sometimes

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

Big, Clown, Roles, Serious

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.

Art, Book, Inspire, Novels, Phone, Song

I think it's important to keep an element of fear about yourself because it makes you appreciate the jobs.

Appreciate, Element, Jobs, Think, Thinking

The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.

Kids, Thinking, Good Things, Woman, Big, Good

Here in L. A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

Like, Look, Looks, Ridiculous, Sixties, Want

The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.

Artist, Artists, Beach, Believe, Hackney, Like

What has surprised me most about being a celebrity is the fascination with pregnant women. After I had Rocco, the paparazzi came and sought me out. I never had that before. There's a whole industry, literally, based on people having children. I guess because you're changing, putting on weight. It makes me very uncomfortable. I didn't enjoy that much at all.

Changing, Children, Enjoy, Fascination, People, Women

I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but. . . I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

Already, Competition, Healthy, Roles, Support, Thinking

With a comedy, it's so important to see it with an audience and an audience who really wants to be there and is enthusiastic, otherwise it can be quite a traumatizing experience.

Audience, Comedy, Important, See, Want

Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

Film, Incredibly, Making, Undertaking, Undertakings

The roles for women on television have historically always been stronger and that, I would say, is still true. The question is commerce. That's probably where there's a block for a lot of people, the commerce behind it. Where is the audience? And it's so clear to me that there is a huge audience for female-driven projects. People still seem to think it's a fluke when it happens. That's one of the hurdles that's still left to be jumped over.

Block, Left, People, Projects, Stronger, Thinking

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

Careers, Control, Empowering, Everybody, Goal, Mercy

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