Quotes from Toni Collette

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.'

Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.

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 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.

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.

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.

I can't imagine a world without music.

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

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

I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.

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