Toni Collette famous quotes

03-30-2025

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

#World #Know Yourself #Our Relationship
Travelling's so much better when you know you've got a lovely home to go back to.
-- Toni Collette

#Home #Lovely
I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated
-- Toni Collette

#Glad #Isolated
My life is as good as an Abba song. Itâ€™s as good as Dancing Queen.
-- Toni Collette

#Song #Queens #Dancing
An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.
-- Toni Collette

#Character #Way #Accents
I have never witnessed poverty like I did in Haiti. The kind that is so deep and wide-reaching that it feels impossible to make a difference. But I found that lives can and are being changed. It may take a lot of work and time but Concern has, and continues to make, serious progress because they stayed long after the world moved on.
-- Toni Collette

#Differences #Long #Progress
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.
-- Toni Collette

#People #Scary #Want
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.
-- Toni Collette

#Artist #Trying #Want
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.
-- Toni Collette

#Challenges #Becoming #Actors
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.
-- Toni Collette

#Thinking #Japanese Culture #Way
I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.
-- Toni Collette

#Real #Journey #Play
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.
-- Toni Collette

#Acting #Age #Passionate
Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
-- Toni Collette

#Desert #Brilliant
I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.
-- Toni Collette

#Country #Nice #Mind
Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.
-- Toni Collette

#Thinking #Different #Helping
Sometimes it was so quiet, its frightening. It really prioritizes things.
-- Toni Collette

#Quiet #Sometimes #Prioritize
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.
-- Toni Collette

#Live Life #Character #Thinking
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.
-- Toni Collette

#Long #Doe #Television
I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.
-- Toni Collette

#Married #Being Married
I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.
-- Toni Collette

#Kids #Problem #Kids Love
I don't understand why I do what I do. I don't understand why I act anymore. But I do know that I love it, and that I find it really interesting and satisfying to enter into other worlds and explore different ways of thinking.
-- Toni Collette

#Thinking #Other Worlds #Interesting

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