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Toni Collette Biography

Toni Collett (born 1 November 1972), known as Toni Collette, is an Australian actress and musician, known for her acting work on stage, television, and film as well as a secondary career as the lead singer of the band Toni Collette & the Finish. She has received six AACTA Awards, one Emmy Award and one Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award and once for both an Academy Award and a Tony Award.

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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.

Character, Complex, Moving, Personally, Play, Truthful

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.

Actors, Appearing, Becoming, Challenges, Natural, Somebody

I've never really been a fan of violence.

Fan, Fans, Violence

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

Inspire, Journey, People, Play, Real

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

Accent, Accents, Character, Entry, Way

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.

Character, Done, Kind, Like, Play, Thinking

A life without glitter is no life at all.

Glitter, Life

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.

Believe, Everything, Idea, Ideas, Like, Thinking

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

Being Married, Felt, Like, Married

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

Back, Home, Know, Lovely, Travel

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.

Funny, Keep, Life, Life Is, Matter, Time

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

Familiar, Inevitable, Life, Life Is

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.

Doe, Easier, Grew, Long, Psyche, Sound

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

Different, Helping, Helps, Identifying, Things, Thinking

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

Kids, Kids Love, Problem, Working

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

Brilliant, Desert, Hard

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

Actors, Exciting, See, Think, Thinking

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.

Character, Inevitable, Life, Live Life, Thinking

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.

Appreciate, Early, Individuality, Kids, Sense, Thinking

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

Know, Know Yourself, Our Relationship, Relationship, World

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