Collette Quotes

#1. I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.

Chloe Sevigny

#2. He's one sexy dead guy," she whispered as Jean barked orders at Jake and Collette, who'd dallied too long before returning to their transport post....
"That he is, very sexy for a dead guy," I said. "Accent on the word dead.

Suzanne Johnson

#3. Again, I want to give credit where credit is due to our voice director, Collette Sunderman, who is someone that works out an incredible juggling act. I refer to it as juggling cats with vertigo, and the cats don't have vertigo, but the juggler has vertigo.

Jeph Loeb

#4. I think it's exciting to see actors do new things.

Toni Collette

#5. I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.

Toni Collette

#6. Your need for me is only gonna grow stronger. Why put yourself through that? You can have me whenever you want me, baby. I'm yours for the taking.

Collette West

#7. An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

Toni Collette

#8. That big chunk of my life that felt like it was missing has slid back into place. With him, I feel whole again. For the first time in a long time, I'm where I'm supposed to be with the person I'm supposed to be with.

Collette West

#9. What I do affects others; what others do affects me.

Toni Collette

#10. I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.

Toni Collette

#11. I wanna explore your body. I wanna kiss my way up and down it all night long.

Collette West

#12. I've lied all my life. I'm just now learning how to tell the truth, and I'm not going to start playing games again, especially not with you.

Collette West

#13. I think the most interesting thing about any story is how people change. That's usually a struggle, because change is pretty much an uncomfortable thing.

Toni Collette

#14. It's a funny time, but I'm sure in any time you live in, you'd consider it funny because life is change and it'll just keep doing that. It's a matter of embracing it or not.

Toni Collette

#15. As far as kids go, at an early age they have to develop a sense of individuality. It's just something that everyone goes through. But I think the older I get, the more I appreciate the fact that we really are just so connected.

Toni Collette

#16. I have nothing to make me feel good, except for you. The last thing I want to do is turn you into my new drug of choice.

Collette West

#17. You need something more from me - something I wasn't able to give you before.

Collette West

#18. I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.

Toni Collette

#19. wondered if he was going to turn up. When he did, I was gutted.

Collette Elliott

#20. I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

Toni Collette

#21. There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

Toni Collette

#22. Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

Toni Collette

#23. I love the way he looks in his uniform, all man with just a hint of the boy I fell for all those years ago.

Collette West

#24. I don't understand why I do what I do. I don't understand why I act anymore. But I do know that I love it, and that I find it really interesting and satisfying to enter into other worlds and explore different ways of thinking.

Toni Collette

#25. Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness.
It's the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.

Amy Collette

#26. I'm frozen in place as his eyes rake over me.

Collette West

#27. She's an adversary, but undeniably an equal. Maybe she can bring me back from the beyond. If anyone can do it, I'm beginning to realize it could be her. Like she said, all I have to do is try.

Collette West

#28. I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.

Toni Collette

#29. Movement means freedom. That's what life's all about.

Collette West

#30. I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of pasting on an idea.

Toni Collette

#31. Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

Toni Collette

#32. I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

Toni Collette

#33. He's letting me see the real him, something he doesn't allow a lot of people to see.

Collette West

#34. That's just it. What if I can't protect you? I'll be outnumbered, outgunned. What if I can't get you out of there?

Collette West

#35. Travelling's so much better when you know you've got a lovely home to go back to.

Toni Collette

#36. Though our past may shape us, it's our future that makes us.

Collette Scott

#37. His eyes meet mine, and for a moment everything seems like it'll be okay. More than okay, actually.

Collette West

#38. A soft moan escapes me, making him smile even more. He's too good at this.

Collette West

#39. His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me.

Collette West

#40. Stiff, huh? I think seeing you roll around on the floor in that tight little outfit accomplished that.

Collette West

#41. I've never really been a fan of violence. I'm more into the characters and their journey and those kinds of movies don't really allow for that. It's a different focus.

Toni Collette

#42. You saw where I come from. No matter what I do or how I act, I'll always be the scum of the earth. I am who I am, and there's nothing you or anybody else can do to change that.

Collette West

#43. The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

Toni Collette

#44. She strove for poised composure, despite feeling like a powerless pawn in a despicable game of human chess, played for the amusement of those who enjoyed tragic endings at the expense of someone else's happiness - no - their very existence.

Collette Cameron

#45. They all had defining color running through their gray existence.

Jessica M. Collette

#46. I've never been jealous of another teammate. Sure, some guys are faster than I am, stronger than I am, but none of them have ever tried to steal the girl I love away from me.

Collette West

#47. I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.

Toni Collette

#48. Maybe I am the eye candy on the team, but the only mouth I plan on melting in is hers.

Collette West

#49. Forever my light shines on you brightly;
Love from above, I will send to you nightly.

Jessica M. Collette

#50. I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated.

Toni Collette

#51. I told you. I don't do soft and gentle.

Collette West

#52. Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things.

Toni Collette

#53. My life is as good as an Abba song. It's as good as Dancing Queen.

Toni Collette

#54. I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.

Toni Collette

#55. I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do.

Toni Collette

#56. It's strange, because it seems that society is kind of promoting or nurturing this kind of ostracized existence. People are kind of very much in their own little worlds.

Toni Collette

#57. My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me.

Collette West

#58. She stirs things inside me that I don't even know I'm feeling until it's too late. Whenever I'm around her, all I can think about is her, no one else, not even myself.

Collette West

#59. Locks or no locks, you're not going to cage me in.

Collette West

#60. To me, there are so many different things to believe in, but I think ultimately we're all energy and that energy keeps changing.

Toni Collette

#61. Having a woman on the team is stirring things inside me that I never felt before while on the job.

Collette West

#62. This girl owns me, whether she realizes it or not. I'm a slave to her will.

Collette West

#63. I think I'm true to myself - you hear that actors have like plans. I'm gonna do this type of movie, then I'm gonna play this kind of character, and that'll get me from A to B. I've never done that. I honestly just follow my gut and I don't think you can go wrong with that.

Toni Collette

#64. I like imagining that he punished his body for me, torturing it into such spectacular shape, hoping that one day I'd be able to appreciate his efforts.

Collette West

#65. There was no mistaking; he was a King on his throne... and I crowned him.

Jessica M. Collette

#66. He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.

Collette West

#67. So you're saying your kissing me back was just a pity thing? Because it sure didn't feel that way to me.

Collette West

#68. We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

Toni Collette

#69. We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

Toni Collette

#70. She got me to crack open the window to my soul, and I really don't want to slam it down on her fingers just yet.

Collette West

#71. You're gonna come apart in my hands the minute I touch you. I give you a week before you're back in my bed.

Collette West

#72. I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.

Toni Collette

#73. Rejection is Spirit's protection. What is for you will not go past you.

Collette Baron-Reid

#74. People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

Toni Collette

#75. I'd make another night with me worth your while. I like to draw things out, too, preferably in the bedroom when we're both naked and I'm on top of you.

Collette West

#76. Wow, I didn't even hesitate to call her my girlfriend. That's a first.

Collette West

#77. I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are challenged in some way and, I guess, who kind of move through those challenges.

Toni Collette

#78. Cameron and I actually do wear the same size. It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.

Toni Collette