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When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.
Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.
Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.
You can't really achieve anything in three years.
You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.
You don't ever really get to know Woody Allen.
You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.
You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.
You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.
You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.
I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.
I was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good, big house out of words.
I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Lilith Norman and Wrightson were pumping out hugely inspiring stuff.
I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.
I'm a very nervy kind of person, who finds it almost impossible to relax.
I'm not a risk-taker; that's probably why I write - because when you're easily bored, but you don't like taking risks, you end up doing it all in your head.
In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.
Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.
The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to 'The Women's Room.'
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A. N. Wilson
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