Top 50 Toni Collette Quotes

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.

I have trouble admitting I’m wrong.

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.

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

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.

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.’

In a lot of films, forever it’s been boy-meets-girl, and thank God for films like – I know it’s going to sound ridiculous – ‘Frozen.’ I was so excited for my daughter to be able to watch a love story between two sisters instead of some stupid prince.

We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot – and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it’s like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

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

My 20s were totally bonkers. I was living out of a suitcase and burning the candle at both ends. But I tell you – I am totally over it.

My life is fancy dress, so I prefer not to do it in my spare time.

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 there’s an inevitable fact that I somehow absorb part of what I’m doing, because that’s what you’re constantly thinking about, and that’s what’s in your veins, and that’s what you get up at 4:30 in the morning for and fall into bed after.

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

Hal Ashby is one of my favorite filmmakers.

I love rides. I’m such an immature person.

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

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.

If I hadn’t had acting, I would probably have imploded.

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

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.

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

My plan is to have no plan. If you know what plan you have, life has its own ideas and will take you in any direction it pleases. So my idea about life is to just be open to it and to go with the flow and go with my gut.

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

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.

Cameron and I actually do wear the same size. It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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 can’t imagine a world without music.

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

The way a character looks reflects what’s on the inside. I can make myself look really bad, and I can make myself look kind of gorgeous. It’s not about me; it’s about the character.

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

I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.

I wouldn’t play glamour for glamour.

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.

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 played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn’t like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader.

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

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

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

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 wish I had more patience.

I have to say, I feel really lucky. I’ve had a lot of great characters to play.