105 Quotes by Miranda Otto

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

In everything I do, I like to set the idea for girls that they can do anything. I was really moved by Hillary Clinton's speech when she lost the election - she didn't want young girls to feel like it wasn't possible and wanted them to know a female president will eventually happen. That's important.

You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember really strong images. Images have a way of bypassing your brain and hitting you emotionally.

There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world.

I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always a really chaotic period on shows.

It's so great to come in and do something where you know how strong the format of the show is and you're working with writers and directors who worked on the original show. It feels like you're going into a well-run ship already. Then it's just a matter of creating these new characters.

That fascinated me. I used to watch all these operations on TV and thought it would be really cool to do that.

I was cast in a film toward the end of high school. Even then, I wasn't sure.