"Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God."

“Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.”

“In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.”

“Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.”

“The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there.”

Source : "Interview with Deborah Mailman – Star of The Sapphires". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. March 21, 2013.

“I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.”

“If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.”