Teresa Palmer Quotes

I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.

I think Aussies try to stay humble.

I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.

I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.

Obviously I don't have a stylist for everyday stuff, but for a premiere or something usually the studio will hire someone.

As for myself, I'm attracted to venture into places with peeling paint, and areas that are crumbling a little bit. It makes sense because we've already established the photography focusing on architecture, even if it looks incorrect, there's something appealing about entering that.

I came from rather humble beginnings.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

If you're being true to who you are, and the things you believe in, that is so attractive to me.

I love to challenge myself.

Life is way too short to be focused on scales, weight and cellulite. If you can look in the mirror and know that you're a beautiful, loving, friendly person who's good to people, that'll ultimately make you shine on the outside.

Kids are really cruel.

I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh.

I have to not take myself too seriously and I have to realise that if it is meant to be, it will be.

The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

I always have those feelings - lucky and blessed - and I don't know if they'll ever go away. I really hope they don't, as I think it keeps you grounded. That's how I feel about every film I do.

I can walk around relatively anonymously.

I'm a sucker for, like, an endearing man who's like standing in his authentic self.

I do feel incredibly blessed in my life. I've been given amazing opportunities in my life and even when I'm tired, like right now, I try not to lose sight of all the blessings in my life. I'm enjoying it. It's what I've always dreamed of doing. I don't know if I'll ever get to the point in my life where I feel like 'I've made it'. But right now I'm happy with where things are at and hopefully it will continue to grow.

My parents don't really watch movies at all.

When I did my first film I kind of fell into it. I got cast in this movie called 2:37... the director, Murali K Thalluri, basically saw me and said: "I'm going to put you in this movie." And that week I felt like a void had been filled. I was so in my element. I was thrown in at the deep end.

I was so dorky up until I was about 14 or 15 and started to get a little bit cooler, but I was a socks and sandals girl. I would wear big frilly socks with sandals and all the kids would tease me.

I love zombie films like Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' - I thought it was so brilliantly done and so grounded in reality. I was definitely thrust into the zombie world watching that film.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

If you are having fun on screen, it shows.

I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough.

In real life, I'm always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup.

I'm very much into animal welfare.

There aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite.

I love being able to help and encourage my friends and I try to inspire them as they do me.

As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.

I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.

I try to get back to Australia as much as possible.

I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.

I'm not really sure what the psychology is, but for me, I'm interested in it because it's such a juxtaposition to what is going on in my life with a newborn, as you can see. So because of that juxtaposition I'm really fascinated by it, but I'm equally terrified by it, and I think that diving in it makes me feel safer as a woman and a mother for some reason.

I've been incredibly blessed.

I do like fantasy films.

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.

I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.