Radha Mitchell Quotations

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.

I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.

So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.

But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.

I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.

But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

I never wanted to be a movie star.

I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

Silent Hill is the scariest thing I've been in since a bed with Ally Sheedy.

I think the major attraction to me was?Christophe.

I think there's something very elegant about the way that Christophe is directing horror. And, his inspiration is, you know, coming from a very highbrow kind of level in art. So If you're into horror I would say this is the movie to watch because it's elegant horror.

I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.

Well, I think because I did Love and Other Catastrophes and then I realised that there was some kind of possibility there, and you don't waste it.

Well, when I was doing movies like High Art, I was kind of experimenting with just being in America and working in different kinds of films.

It's disturbing because she's such a good actress. She had to draw all these evil pictures as her character, these evil scribbles. So we would just sit around and draw really pretty pictures as sort of an antidote to what we were doing every day.

I'm not a very good player, to be honest. I've tried to play the game and especially to get familiar with the characters better. I mean, it's really an amazing game, having just a limited sort of knowledge of it that I have.

I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way.

It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.

So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

There's something really nice about having a group of people that you're committed to, that you work with and that there's a future in it. Film is like a party, and then it's over, whereas this hopefully feels like a family.

I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

You do have habits and rhythms that you do sort of fall into when you're acting, but if you've got text that doesn't allow you to do that it puts you in a bit of an uncomfortable space and takes you out of your habits.

All that either of us has is right now and we should pay attention to that.