A Spoonful of Sugar. the singing was the most beautiful, slow-burn collaboration. I was approached for this in 2015 and we didn't start shooting until 2017. So we really had about a year to work on it and the songs were so familiar to me in my bones by the time we even started rehearsing and prerecording them.

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I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

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The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

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When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

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love-you people needs

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

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It's always better just to do work that you're really proud of and work that you enjoy because really all you have are the choices you make and that's it and who knows after that. I think that's what I love in acting.

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My objective is that I don't try to do the same thing. I try not to emulate something I've done before. And, I'm a real people watcher, so I like trying to play characters that are as diverse from each other as possible, simply because it's more fun for me, actually.

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There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

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I think a lot of people want to, at some point in their life, be someone else, run away and escape, in some way. We actors do get to do it. We have a job that allows for that. We have an outlet for it.

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I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.

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I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.

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People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

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I was never a girl that dreamt of being a princess and I never dreamt about my wedding day. I hated pink and I hated fairies. I only liked hanging out with boys. I remember throwing a tantrum if my mum put me in pink. I wasn't a particularly girly girl.

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If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

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Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

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Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.

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It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable.

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I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.

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I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.

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People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.

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Cate's absolutely spellbinding. She was like that just eating a sandwich. I knew at the time I was privileged, but since she's become God's gift to actresses I realise exactly how lucky I was.

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