Toni Collette Quotes

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Toni Collette

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 1, 1971

The potential strength of female friendship and the bonds that can be formed, especially over a lifelong relationship, is very profound.

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My plan is to have no plan. If you know what plan you have, life has its own ideas and will take you in any direction it pleases. So my idea about life is to just be open to it and to go with the flow and go with my gut.

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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.

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I wish I had more patience.

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After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script.

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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.

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I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.

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I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

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The people who are most attractive to me are those who feel most comfortable in their skin - there's a sense of self-acceptance.

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I can't imagine a world without music.

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My 20s were totally bonkers. I was living out of a suitcase and burning the candle at both ends. But I tell you - I am totally over it.

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An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

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I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

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Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

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We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

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I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated.

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Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things.

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Cameron and I actually do wear the same size. It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.

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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.

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I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.

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