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.

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

Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.

I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the moment.

I wouldn't play glamour for glamour.

If I get dressed up, and my boyfriend says, 'You look gorgeous,' I kinda feel funny. I don't know if I'm particularly comfortable with being attractive.

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.