Miranda Otto Quotes

Author Image

Miranda Otto

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 16, 1967

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

Miranda Otto

I haven't found the experience of being hot very great. It usually means you are about to be overexposed. I would rather be respected.

Miranda Otto

Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.

Miranda Otto

I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university.

Miranda Otto

I think that's the kind of women that people are interested in. They're interested in strong women characters who are stronger than the male characters sometimes, in some ways. That's what's interesting and attractive about women.

Miranda Otto

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

Miranda Otto

It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity.

Miranda Otto

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

Miranda Otto

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

Miranda Otto

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

Miranda Otto

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

Miranda Otto

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

Miranda Otto

Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

Miranda Otto

Every director is completely different.

Miranda Otto

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

Miranda Otto

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

Miranda Otto

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

Miranda Otto

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

Miranda Otto

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

Miranda Otto

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

Miranda Otto