Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.
Margot Robbie
'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.
Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.
Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.
There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an actress. That's what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn't become an actor so I could show you me.
To do all your own stunts, you have to be so strong.
It's always good to have a story arch.
If people are talking about me, I want it to be because of the work I'm doing and not the person I'm seeing.
I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk.
People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.
If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.
'Wolf of Wall Street' opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities.
I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.
I'm not extravagant. I share my house in London with five roommates. I take the Tube. I intend to stay the exact same person I always was.
I live with three boys, and I can't tell you how hard it is to get your hands on toilet paper. They steal it.
My jet lag is getting a bit ridiculous. But, you know, it's first-world problems. It's a wonderful problem, 'Oh I have to travel around the world; how awful.'
I'm a bit of a tomboy.
Any time I have any time off, I try to travel.
It's not about being rich, but everyone back home has a pool. And I was a total water baby. My mom couldn't get me out - she'd put my dinner plate at the end of the pool, and I'd eat my meals in the water.
That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.
If someone's gonna pick between me and Emma Stone, they're gonna pick Emma Stone.
It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on a soap than it is on a big studio film.
People ask me all the time what it is about Australia that produces so many big stars. Honestly, I believe it is a combination of things. Our education standards are quite high, but our industry is very limited. Yet we're very aware of the industry - everyone goes to the theater, sees TV shows.
You don't leave Australia unless you are passionate. Any Australian actor who comes to America is really committed. There are no dabblers - it's all or nothing.
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.
I'm not a massive 'Star Trek' fan.
I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.
Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.
People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.
Where I'm from on the Gold Coast, we say that there are a lot of 'cashed-up Bogans,' you know, people with no class but a lot of money.
When I eat, I have to chop up everything on the plate and stir it all together. It devastates my mom. Everyone at the table is like, 'That looks like cat vomit.' And I stir my Coke with a spoon until it's flat.
You should have seen me at 14, with braces and glasses, gangly and doing ballet!
All your mannerisms change easily when you have inch-long acrylic nails.
If I looked good in 'Wolf of Wall Street,' I cannot take full credit; it was because of the hair extensions and makeup.
It's just terrible: I miss flights all the time, more than I probably catch one.
Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.
New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.
I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It's like, in real life, I've got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who's twice their age, and they're equally in love.
I am unobservant.
I say this about everything: when I was on 'Neighbours,' I said, 'These are the best years of my life!' When I was filming 'The Wolf Of Wall Street,' I said, 'These are the best months of my life!' I always think I'm having the best time ever, and that I'll never have so much fun again.
I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.
I just try to keep healthy more so than trying to be thin.
It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!
I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.
Chemistry is so important and so unpredictable. Sometimes you get in a room with someone where aesthetically you make perfect sense as a couple, and then you read, and you're both kind of sitting there like, 'This isn't working for some strange reason; it just doesn't really pop.'
I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway.
I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.
I learned a lot about pain and suffering during 'Pan Am.' We had to wear very constricting period-correct girdles and bras. After that, I learned to read a script with an eye toward the undergarments.
There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!
