Latest Rose Byrne Quotes from Interviews

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• I think it's only through learning, and doing something uncomfortable, that you can actually change. That's why I wanted to do a play. I was so scared of it and I knew my brain would really be stretched and it was going to be hard. And it was hard and uncomfortable. Instead of naturally wanting to avoid all those feelings I need to lean toward them more. But saying that, don't ask me to make a lasagna or a Coq au vin.

  Rose Byrne

  Thinking, Feelings, Brain

  Source: www.elle.com

• The concept of growing up is so hard to quantify. What have you learned and how have you changed and how have you stayed exactly the same? As I get older, it's something I reflect on more and more. Especially as the generations go on. We wait longer to have families, we wait longer to have responsibilities. Everyone used to be married by 20 and pregnant immediately.

  Rose Byrne

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Waiting

  Source: www.elle.com

• I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to see how far we've come and how far we haven't come with all these myths that people put onto women.

  Rose Byrne

  Reading, People, Interesting

  Source: www.elle.com

• I think people are uncomfortable seeing pregnant women, particularly with any kind of conflict. [Pregnancy is] very much a projection of life and love, but it's also very complicated. People have very complicated pregnancies. They could be accidental or people suffer depression, and that was a really interesting thing for me. And a challenging thing. I have not been pregnant. I don't know what that's like, let alone to be really conflicted about it. Acting in the film about pregnancy was a really interesting thing to do.

  Rose Byrne

  Life And Love, Pregnancy, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

• Women watch plenty of television and theater. They're consumers, like everybody else. I think people don't thinking women go to the movies is a thing that still has to be addressed and changed.

  Rose Byrne

  Thinking, People, Changed

  Source: www.elle.com

• The roles for women on television have historically always been stronger and that, I would say, is still true. The question is commerce. That's probably where there's a block for a lot of people, the commerce behind it. Where is the audience? And it's so clear to me that there is a huge audience for female-driven projects. People still seem to think it's a fluke when it happens. That's one of the hurdles that's still left to be jumped over.

  Rose Byrne

  Block, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

• I'm absolutely as vulnerable as the next person in terms of being swept up in aspirational Instagrams. You just have to know what is fantasy and what is real. It's always good to have a diverse feed in your life and in your social media.

  Rose Byrne

  Real, Social Media, Fantasy

  Source: people.com

• Healthy aggression is good, but I think social media can perpetuate that in the worst way. You have to be careful about comparing yourself to others. You can never be somebody else. You will only be yourself, and that's what's great.

  Rose Byrne

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Healthy

  Source: people.com

• How competitive am I? A healthy amount. I have four siblings. It was competitive just eating dinner, like, "Everyone, get what you want from the chicken." Plus competing for your parents' attention.

  Rose Byrne

  Sibling, Healthy, Attention

  Source: people.com

• The actor's life, but also the Australian's life. We're wanderers. We like to walk about - we're curious people. I have felt that since I was a teenager.

  Rose Byrne

  Teenager, People, Curious

  Source: people.com

• I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.

  Rose Byrne

  Grateful, Complaining, Tough

  Source: people.com

• What has surprised me most about being a celebrity is the fascination with pregnant women. After I had Rocco, the paparazzi came and sought me out. I never had that before. There's a whole industry, literally, based on people having children. I guess because you're changing, putting on weight. It makes me very uncomfortable. I didn't enjoy that much at all.

  Rose Byrne

  Children, People, Enjoy

  Source: people.com

• What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.

  Rose Byrne

  Heart, Artist, Broken

  Source: people.com

• The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.

  Rose Byrne

  Kids, Thinking, Good Things

  Source: people.com

• The writing is so great on TV now; it's such a pleasure to watch.

  Rose Byrne

  Writing, Watches, Tvs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I love TV as a viewer.

  Rose Byrne

  Tvs, Viewers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I definitely had creative people around me, but my parents were more just very encouraging.

  Rose Byrne

  People, Creative, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of Sydney. It's a lot more gentrified now. It was very working class, pubs on every corner because it's right by the water so a lot of the guys on the ships and the boats used to go and drink there. It's very posh now.

  Rose Byrne

  Art, Class, Water

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People would make fun of me and throw things at me and whatever teenagers do.

  Rose Byrne

  Fun, Teenager, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• With a comedy, it's so important to see it with an audience and an audience who really wants to be there and is enthusiastic, otherwise it can be quite a traumatizing experience.

  Rose Byrne

  Important, Want, Comedy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.

  Rose Byrne

  Thinking, Discipline, Different

  "Knowing feature – Rose Byrne". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. March 1, 2009.

• As an artist I just think comedic actors are really underrated.

  Rose Byrne

  Thinking, Artist, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait.

  Rose Byrne

  Healthy, Sense Of Humor, Kind

  Source: collider.com

• I think diversity for most actors is such a blessing. It's something definitely I've strived for.

  Rose Byrne

  Thinking, Blessing, Diversity

  Source: collider.com

• I see some of the clothes from the '90s is back in fashion. That really freaks me out because that's when I grew up.

  Rose Byrne

  Fashion, Clothes, Freak

  "EXCLUSIVE: Rose Byrne is the Girl Next Door in ‘Neighbors’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. May 6, 2014.