Noah Taylor Quotations

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

I have been working on this project trying to record a little record a month just at home in a different genre for each one,

I am going to actually try and concentrate on music just for a year,

I have just been burnt, ... I have revealed myself occasionally to journalists and regretted the way they have written it.

Creative types seem to want to project their personality onto me, ... I've done a lot of biographical stuff and reminiscences of other people's youth, which is not entirely interesting to me. Because it's such a small country, you do a few roles like, say, Jack Thompson or Bryan Brown, and you get indelibly stamped as representing this aspect of either people or the nation's character.

You need to put aside a certain amount of time to book gigs otherwise you inevitably get caught up working on something else.