I find, in film, we're always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I'm quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I'm just really loving it and feeling great, and it's all over.

Miranda Otto

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember really strong images. Images have a way of bypassing your brain and hitting you emotionally.

Miranda Otto

Movies Funny Art

Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.

Miranda Otto

You Will Who

I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

Miranda Otto

Us Thing Thin

When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee.

Miranda Otto

Work Intelligence Home

Soho House is normally a private-members club, but the Berlin one has a hotel open to the public. Many beautiful rooms in a cool location, and who knows who you'll run into in the lobby!

Miranda Otto

Cool You Who

As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there.

Miranda Otto

Work Life Great

It's so great to come in and do something where you know how strong the format of the show is and you're working with writers and directors who worked on the original show. It feels like you're going into a well-run ship already. Then it's just a matter of creating these new characters.

Miranda Otto

Work Great You

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

Miranda Otto

Family Easter Turn

There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world.

Miranda Otto

Work Women Success

Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people.

Miranda Otto

Work Yes Wit

There's a film I did years ago, 'Love Serenade,' that I still really love. It's such an oddball sense of humor. It was a really special film for me when I did it.

Miranda Otto

Love Humor Years Ago

I think, with TV, you create kind of a family to work with.

Miranda Otto

Work Family You

The whole theatre world deeply attracts me. I love rehearsing and having time to make mistakes and laugh and discover things about yourself and other people - and the energy level is great.

Miranda Otto

Time Love Great

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

Miranda Otto

Work Yin Wife

There are so many things from movies that are remembered, that are just looks on people's faces or incredible vistas or beautiful pictures. That is a very important part of cinema.

Miranda Otto

Movies Art Very

That is definitely something that I feel more comfortable with now. When I did 'Lord of the Rings,' it was something I wasn't quite prepared for, I didn't know how to deal with that sort of attention, and I kind of shied away from that, but I'm better at dealing with that now - a lot better.

Miranda Otto

Wit Way Thing

I haven't found the experience of being hot very great. It usually means you are about to be overexposed. I would rather be respected.

Miranda Otto

Respect Great Experience

People often say, 'I thought you were much taller.' So, I don't know. Maybe it's the way I stand or something.

Miranda Otto

You Were Way

In everything I do, I like to set the idea for girls that they can do anything. I was really moved by Hillary Clinton's speech when she lost the election - she didn't want young girls to feel like it wasn't possible and wanted them to know a female president will eventually happen. That's important.

Miranda Otto

Young Girls Young You

I think most big stars do have just a certain amount of mystery; you don't know everything.

Miranda Otto

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.

Miranda Otto

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.

Miranda Otto

I just feel like TV takes more risks than film. Film has gotten very safe: it's very compartmentalized about what type of things will be successful. And whereas in TV, since all these new platforms opened, they're saying to writers, go out there, write the most different show that you can write. Write something that's really original and different.

Miranda Otto

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

Miranda Otto

Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.

Miranda Otto

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

Miranda Otto

I ask myself, 'What is the value of acting and the attention that actors get? And yet there are so many people in the world doing incredible things for mankind, and they don't get much attention.' I do question about that, but I don't think I would've been a great doctor. I think I would've been a good surgeon. That fascinated me.

Miranda Otto

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

Miranda Otto

I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and their humour.

Miranda Otto

I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.

Miranda Otto

Usually, I end up looking for something completely different to who I last played. But there is just a spark that's lit when I read a script or character I want to play.

Miranda Otto

I find, in film, we're always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I'm quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I'm just really loving it and feeling great, and it's all over.

Miranda Otto

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

Miranda Otto

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

Miranda Otto

In Australia, it's people from Asian countries who most often recognise me. There are often people just looking at me at the supermarket, like they're shocked to think I would go to the supermarket.

Miranda Otto

Premieres are pretty fun, but probably the most fun was when I went to see 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,' and I'd just flown in from Africa, and I hadn't even seen the movie yet. So, the first time I saw it was at the premiere. It was really fun.

Miranda Otto

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

Miranda Otto

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

Miranda Otto

QVB have a long history of supporting Australian talent.

Miranda Otto

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

Miranda Otto

My parents split up when I was young, and they are still good friends. I think it's often projected that these things have to be so acrimonious. It's so often not the case.

Miranda Otto

I worry about my sides. I worry where everything goes. I worry that I'm going to be the leak. I give all my scripts back!

Miranda Otto

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

Miranda Otto

That fascinated me. I used to watch all these operations on TV and thought it would be really cool to do that.

Miranda Otto

It's a little daunting coming on to work with actors that you respect so much.

Miranda Otto

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

Miranda Otto

I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A.

Miranda Otto

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

Miranda Otto

I think that's the kind of women that people are interested in. They're interested in strong women characters who are stronger than the male characters sometimes, in some ways. That's what's interesting and attractive about women.

Miranda Otto