Quotes from Toni Collette

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.

Travelling's so much better when you know you've got a lovely home to go back to.

To tell you the truth, my father says I came out of the womb literally singing and dancing, as though there was a spotlight on me. When I ask what I was like when I was little, they just say 'loud.'

I'm starting to realise that there are certain themes that I return to, those being that there is no such thing as normal, and people finding their voice and living authentically. And also that you can be influenced and helped through an extended family.

I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of pasting on an idea.

I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.

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

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it's almost like I have no control over it. It's like they choose me.

'Krampus' had a certain originality about it, so I jumped on board.

I have trouble admitting I'm wrong.