The roles for women on television have historically always been stronger and that, I would say, is still true. The question is commerce. That's probably where there's a block for a lot of people, the commerce behind it. Where is the audience? And it's so clear to me that there is a huge audience for female-driven projects. People still seem to think it's a fluke when it happens. That's one of the hurdles that's still left to be jumped over.

Rose Byrne

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You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy.

flashy streets magazines

I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

competition support thinking

Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time. by Rose Byrne

Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.

anything-can-happen things-happen happens

What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.

broken artist heart

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.

The concept of growing up is so hard to quantify. What have you learned and how have you changed and how have you stayed exactly the same? As I get older, it's something I reflect on more and more. Especially as the generations go on. We wait longer to have families, we wait longer to have responsibilities. Everyone used to be married by 20 and pregnant immediately.

growing-up responsibility waiting

I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.

impress cities beach

I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to see how far we've come and how far we haven't come with all these myths that people put onto women.

reading people interesting

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sor... by Rose Byrne

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.

getting-high anxiety people

I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

always-trying sibling thinking

I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hil... by Rose Byrne

I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.

tribes quests boys

I think people are uncomfortable seeing pregnant women, particularly with any kind of conflict. [Pregnancy is] very much a projection of life and love, but it's also very complicated. People have very complicated pregnancies. They could be accidental or people suffer depression, and that was a really interesting thing for me. And a challenging thing. I have not been pregnant. I don't know what that's like, let alone to be really conflicted about it. Acting in the film about pregnancy was a really interesting thing to do.

life-and-love pregnancy thinking

I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.

different acting character

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity. by Rose Byrne

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.

actresses character

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

ridiculous want looks

Women watch plenty of television and theater. They're consumers, like everybody else. I think people don't thinking women go to the movies is a thing that still has to be addressed and changed.

changed people thinking

The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody.

environment fun beautiful

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.

spirals ifs knows

The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.

artist beach believe

They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.

important people thinking