"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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Source : "Touchy, feely, Toni" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

Toni Collette

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“Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
“I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.”
“The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.”
“I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.”
“I deserve to be happy. I'm sad it took me so long to get that. But I get it now.”
“I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.”
“That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?”
“I'm blind without my glasses.”

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