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.'

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.

Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.

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.

My life is as good as an Abba song. It's as good as Dancing Queen.

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

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.

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.

I wish I had more patience.

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