Quotes About Perception

The audiences in the U.K. like me more than in America.

Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.

Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.

Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.

It's my favorite, when you see those auditions that you're just like, 'That's the guy.'

I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.

It seems that people are tired of everyone looking the same on television. And this seems especially true for white people. Even white people are tired of watching the same white people. That's why we've been importing them from Australia.

We're actually more popular in the U.K.; they really get us, and in Australia. In the non-English speaking countries, they don't really get it.

I think mine's such a mish-mash now: I get criticised for sounding like a Yank when I come home, and everybody thinks I'm Australian when I'm in America.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

When British or Australian actors perform American characters, we laud them and talk about how great it is they are able to do this other accent that is not their own. Americans have different relationships with other accents.

There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.

Acting is about being in the moment and audiences are smart to know what is authentic and what is not.

I think people see me as authentic, just like I am, with my ideas, my style of doing politics.

I believe that my work has been well-received because it is authentic. All people really want are authenticity and truth.

It's always interesting when you play a part and then suddenly people think you're an authority on the subject.

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

People have asked me about doing an autobiography, but I don't think my life is that interesting.

Autobiographies give you the picture of the person behind the image on screen, because that's never really you.

When people come up to me and ask for my autograph and everything... I find it funny that people want my autograph.

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.