Toni Collette Quotes

• 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.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in TV Series, American

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

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

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  Topics in Country, Work

  Tags in Traveling

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

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  Tags in Character

• 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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Character

• Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

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  Tags in Hard Work

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acting and Actors, Singing

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

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  Tags in Easy

• I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity.

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  Tags in Think, Japanese

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

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  Tags in Like, Marriage

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

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• 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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happy

• 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.

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  Topics in Fear

  Tags in People, Careful

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

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  Tags in Glad

• 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.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in Think

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journey

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

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  Tags in Relationship

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

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  Tags in Frightening

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Talented

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lovely, Travelling

Toni Collette (21)

Birth:	1st November, 1972
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actress, Musician, Producer, Singer

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