Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.
If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.
All actors are on the run from some demon or other.
I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.
Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.
When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least - especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: 'Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?' and I thought of Jose Mourinho.
I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?
The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, in a new way, armed with our own self-regard, our own confidence and fully appreciating our own uniqueness. All other roads will lead us into the shadow of great powers.
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.
Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.