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Toni Collette

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Toni Collette, born on November 1, 1972, is an acclaimed Australian actress known for her exceptional performances in both film and television. She has won numerous awards, including an Academy Award. Collette began her acting career in her childhood, appearing in several Australian television series. After moving to the United States, she began to develop a career in Hollywood and gradually became a star in the international film industry.

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“I don't understand why I do what I do. I don't understand why I act anymore. But I do know that I love it, and that I find it really interesting and satisfying to enter into other worlds and explore different ways of thinking.”

Thinking Knows World Way Different Interesting Different Ways Satisfying Way Of Thinking Really Interesting Other Worlds

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“I think the most interesting thing about any story is how people change. That's usually a struggle, because change is pretty much an uncomfortable thing.”

People Thinking Stories Interesting Struggle Uncomfortable Most Interesting Interesting Things

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“We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.”

Life Is Familiar Inevitable Really Happy

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“I think it's exciting to see actors do new things.”

Thinking Actors Exciting New Things

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“I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.”

Ifs Way Believe Kind Seeing Oneness Narcissistic Seeing Yourself

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“What I do affects others; what others do affects me.”

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“As far as kids go, at an early age they have to develop a sense of individuality. It's just something that everyone goes through. But I think the older I get, the more I appreciate the fact that we really are just so connected.”

Thinking Facts Kids Age Appreciate Individuality Connected

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“To me, there are so many different things to believe in, but I think ultimately we're all energy and that energy keeps changing.”

Thinking Believe Different Energy Different Things

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“It's strange, because it seems that society is kind of promoting or nurturing this kind of ostracized existence. People are kind of very much in their own little worlds.”

People World Kind Littles Seems Existence Strange Promoting Nurturing

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Believe Kind Ideas Like You Guts If You Believe Wholeheartedly

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“I've never really been a fan of violence.”

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“I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are challenged in some way and, I guess, who kind of move through those challenges.”

Way Kind Play Character Moving Challenges Complexes Strikes Truthful Chords

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“It's a funny time, but I'm sure in any time you live in, you'd consider it funny because life is change and it'll just keep doing that. It's a matter of embracing it or not.”

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“I think I'm true to myself - you hear that actors have like plans. I'm gonna do this type of movie, then I'm gonna play this kind of character, and that'll get me from A to B. I've never done that. I honestly just follow my gut and I don't think you can go wrong with that.”

Thinking Kind Done Play Character Actors Plans Type Honestly Guts True To Myself

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“I've never really been a fan of violence. I'm more into the characters and their journey and those kinds of movies don't really allow for that. It's a different focus.”

Kind Different Character Focus Violence Journey Fans

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“A life without glitter is no life at all.”

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

Way Character Accents Entry

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“Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.”

Hard Brilliant Desert

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“I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.”

Mind Different Country Able Nice Taste Working It Really Nice Different Countries Flavour

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

Thinking Different Helping Language Different Things Identifying Musicality

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“Sometimes it was so quiet, its frightening. It really prioritizes things.”

Sometimes Quiet Scary Frightening Prioritize

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“I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.”

Thinking Trying Character Inevitable Live Life

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“I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.”

Long Doe Has Beens Sound Television Grew Easier Grew Up Long Time Familiar American Television

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

Felt Married Being Married

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“I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.”

Problem Kids Kids Love

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“I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.”

Kind Age Acting Passionate

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

People Trying Real Play Journey Inspire

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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.”

Thinking Way Kind Culture Left Traditional Entity Japanese Culture

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“I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated”

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

Knows World Our Relationship Know Yourself

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“My life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.”

Life Is Song Dancing Queens Abba

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

Knows Home Travel Lovely

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“I have never witnessed poverty like I did in Haiti. The kind that is so deep and wide-reaching that it feels impossible to make a difference. But I found that lives can and are being changed. It may take a lot of work and time but Concern has, and continues to make, serious progress because they stayed long after the world moved on.”

World Feels Kind May Long Found Differences Poverty Progress Impossible Changed Serious Concern Moved Wide Making A Difference Reaching Haiti Moved On

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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.”

People Want Feels Able Scary Opening Vulnerable Vulnerability Fearful Unsafe

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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.”

Want Trying Kind Artist Wide Variety Very Happy

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“There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.”

Actors Natural Challenges Becoming Screens Appearing Being Natural

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Born: November 1, 1972
Known for: Actress
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