Top 40 Miranda Otto Quotes

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

In everything I do, I like to set the idea for girls that they can do anything. I was really moved by Hillary Clinton’s speech when she lost the election – she didn’t want young girls to feel like it wasn’t possible and wanted them to know a female president will eventually happen. That’s important.

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and their humour.

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I’m more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don’t.

I was cast in a film toward the end of high school. Even then, I wasn’t sure.

I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential.

The whole theatre world deeply attracts me. I love rehearsing and having time to make mistakes and laugh and discover things about yourself and other people – and the energy level is great.

In Australia, it’s people from Asian countries who most often recognise me. There are often people just looking at me at the supermarket, like they’re shocked to think I would go to the supermarket.

I find, in film, we’re always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I’m quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I’m just really loving it and feeling great, and it’s all over.

QVB have a long history of supporting Australian talent.

Soho House is normally a private-members club, but the Berlin one has a hotel open to the public. Many beautiful rooms in a cool location, and who knows who you’ll run into in the lobby!

I’ve been on shows where they’re just setting it up, and they’re trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That’s always a really chaotic period on shows.

I love buildings that aren’t purpose-built.

It’s good to see a man who isn’t afraid to live out his masculinity.

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

It’s a little daunting coming on to work with actors that you respect so much.

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.

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

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.

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.

People often say, ‘I thought you were much taller.’ So, I don’t know. Maybe it’s the way I stand or something.

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.

Some scripts you read and say, ‘I’ve just got to do this’ and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

It’s so great to come in and do something where you know how strong the format of the show is and you’re working with writers and directors who worked on the original show. It feels like you’re going into a well-run ship already. Then it’s just a matter of creating these new characters.

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

That is definitely something that I feel more comfortable with now. When I did ‘Lord of the Rings,’ it was something I wasn’t quite prepared for, I didn’t know how to deal with that sort of attention, and I kind of shied away from that, but I’m better at dealing with that now – a lot better.

Usually, I end up looking for something completely different to who I last played. But there is just a spark that’s lit when I read a script or character I want to play.

There’s a film I did years ago, ‘Love Serenade,’ that I still really love. It’s such an oddball sense of humor. It was a really special film for me when I did it.

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.

I worry about my sides. I worry where everything goes. I worry that I’m going to be the leak. I give all my scripts back!

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

The detective genre is not easy because you’ve got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.

I think that’s the kind of women that people are interested in. They’re interested in strong women characters who are stronger than the male characters sometimes, in some ways. That’s what’s interesting and attractive about women.

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I’m not.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn’t work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

I think most big stars do have just a certain amount of mystery; you don’t know everything.