Rose Byrne Quotes
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With a comedy, it's so important to see it with an audience and an audience who really wants to be there and is enthusiastic, otherwise it can be quite a traumatizing experience.
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I definitely had creative people around me, but my parents were more just very encouraging.
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TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.
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The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.
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I have to rein myself in sometimes.
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The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.
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I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.
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Comedy has to have momentum in order for it to keep moving along.
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It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.
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There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.
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I've already started saying that I'm 30 when I'm still 29. That way, I'm already there.
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Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.
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I see some of the clothes from the '90s is back in fashion. That really freaks me out because that's when I grew up.
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I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.
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I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.
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I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.
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The concept of growing up is so hard to quantify. What have you learned and how have you changed and how have you stayed exactly the same? As I get older, it's something I reflect on more and more. Especially as the generations go on. We wait longer to have families, we wait longer to have responsibilities. Everyone used to be married by 20 and pregnant immediately.
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What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.
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The British are so funny.
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Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.
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How competitive am I? A healthy amount. I have four siblings. It was competitive just eating dinner, like, "Everyone, get what you want from the chicken." Plus competing for your parents' attention.
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I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.
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My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.
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Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.
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Healthy aggression is good, but I think social media can perpetuate that in the worst way. You have to be careful about comparing yourself to others. You can never be somebody else. You will only be yourself, and that's what's great.
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You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy.
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I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.
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Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.
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I think it's only through learning, and doing something uncomfortable, that you can actually change. That's why I wanted to do a play. I was so scared of it and I knew my brain would really be stretched and it was going to be hard. And it was hard and uncomfortable. Instead of naturally wanting to avoid all those feelings I need to lean toward them more. But saying that, don't ask me to make a lasagna or a Coq au vin.
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I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.
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