Top 50 Toni Collette Quotes

I’m a fan of music, some rock music. But I like many types of music. But I suppose a kind of longstanding love of specific bands would be Radiohead, Wilco, Neil Young, Tom Waits, REM.

I’m very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don’t want to spend your life repeating yourself. It’s true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that’s what I’ve been trying to do.

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

I’m glad that it was so physical and so isolated.

Independent films have a certain freedom about them – there isn’t so much at stake in terms of money. I think they’re more interesting because they’re not watered down to appeal to the masses. They tend to have a unique voice.

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

I’m starting to realise that there are certain themes that I return to, those being that there is no such thing as normal, and people finding their voice and living authentically. And also that you can be influenced and helped through an extended family.

I have trouble admitting I’m wrong.

I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it’s almost like I have no control over it. It’s like they choose me.

I just never want to repeat myself. I also don’t want to be bored in life. The great luxury of being an actor is you get to be different people, and I would hate to be repetitive.

I hate it when the mother is just the mother in movies.

Planning and worrying and chaos in your mind? Forget it. What’s the point of that?

I love holidays. It’s such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing.

I hate sitting around labouring over things. I love just getting into it.

I’ve done a couple of films in Philadelphia, and it’s a great, great town.

I think being the conventional beauty is limiting, so I’m glad I’m not that. If I looked different, I wouldn’t have the great opportunities I’ve had.

When I look at a character, I never look at the size of the role. I always look at the whole person, no matter how much they’re featured in the movie.

My face moves, unlike some actors’ do. I guess it’s kind of a response to what’s happening internally.

I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I’m getting there, slowly but surely.

Mothers are so awesome. They do so much. They wear so many hats and have very passionate relationships with their kids, and with life, and I think it’s a real balance having your own existence and then being this responsible, kind of loving person in someone else’s life or several other people’s lives.

I love working. I love it! It makes me feel awake and alive and appreciative, as does my family, but in a different way. If I was told I couldn’t do it, I think I would wither and die.

I don’t mind where I work, it’s really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.

I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I’m wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.

‘Krampus’ had a certain originality about it, so I jumped on board.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

After ‘Muriel’s Wedding,’ I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script.

I think it’s important to relax in general. I don’t try to save up my relaxing for one month period of the year; it’s kind of a daily practice that I’ve tried to remain aware of.

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it’s so scary – it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines.

Lars Von Trier is a genius. Every film he makes is so honest and powerful.

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.

Whether it’s a movie I’m in or not, if there’s a good movie, and it’s low budget, and you know everyone’s done it just because they were passionate about it and they cared for it, if it has any kind of audience, it’s just a wonderful outcome.

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

I wouldn’t play glamour for glamour.

I don’t feel I owe anyone anything.

Sometimes it was so quiet, it’s frightening. It really prioritizes things.

Oh, I definitely want to direct. I have young children. My job is already big enough, and I imagine it will be even more so as a director, and I don’t want to miss out on them growing up. I’m going to wait until they’re a bit older before I leap into that seat.

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.

If I get dressed up, and my boyfriend says, ‘You look gorgeous,’ I kinda feel funny. I don’t know if I’m particularly comfortable with being attractive.

I’m not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They’re just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It’s kind of untouched, it’s not Americanized.

I can’t imagine a world without music.

I think when I was younger, I used to sort of long to be a part of films that were really gritty and hardcore in a way.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

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

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

To tell you the truth, my father says I came out of the womb literally singing and dancing, as though there was a spotlight on me. When I ask what I was like when I was little, they just say ‘loud.’

When I watch a movie, someone’s beauty isn’t what engages me: it’s what’s going on internally. And I imagine it’s what the audience thinks, too.

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