Quotes from Miranda Otto

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

I haven't found the experience of being hot very great. It usually means you are about to be overexposed. I would rather be respected.

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

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

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

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.

Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.

QVB have a long history of supporting Australian talent.

I ask myself, 'What is the value of acting and the attention that actors get? And yet there are so many people in the world doing incredible things for mankind, and they don't get much attention.' I do question about that, but I don't think I would've been a great doctor. I think I would've been a good surgeon. That fascinated me.

Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.

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.

I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

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

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

Premieres are pretty fun, but probably the most fun was when I went to see 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,' and I'd just flown in from Africa, and I hadn't even seen the movie yet. So, the first time I saw it was at the premiere. It was really fun.

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.

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

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

I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university.

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 just feel like TV takes more risks than film. Film has gotten very safe: it's very compartmentalized about what type of things will be successful. And whereas in TV, since all these new platforms opened, they're saying to writers, go out there, write the most different show that you can write. Write something that's really original and different.

I tend to not think about the kind of movie things I want to be doing, because I've worked in all sorts of different places, and I've spent all sorts of time in England, and I'd still do things in Australia and in America.

Every director is completely different.