Growing up, I was always involved in the deaf community.

If you can't do what you want to do in your life, then it is difficult.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that...

I'm really hard on myself about sticking to plans and seeing things through.

Yes, I was a bully. But the scrapping on the streets was my way of dealing with the anger I felt towards my parents.

The directness of my mother is clearly in my voice. Her opinion is always a very strong opinion at the dining room table. I think she empowered me to have the same drive.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted.

I used to think I'd never get married or have kids. Peer pressure suggested I might be a lone wolf forever. I've always let life dictate its own terms. Marriage just happened.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

I wouldn't say I do that much extreme sport - maybe one day.

I'm really thankful for my time in the AFL, but I'm also thankful I had to make the switch, because there was no pathway for me at that time in AFL.

The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people reached out to me saying, 'Celine, you're one of the most stable things we have in our lives, don't do...

There is a beauty and a special quality in being what I am. I know it, and I've learned how to use it.

When I make mistakes, I just get on with it. I don't try to impress with that killer pass to make sure everybody notices me.

Fatherhood, parenthood, is something that completely overwhelms you and absorbs you, and you just have to be the best dad that you can be.

There was a time when I was young and unemployed, struggling to start my career. During my A-Levels, I was hit by a car, which shattered my bones and left me confined to my bedroom for a year....

You have to be prepared to go along the way life takes you.

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

I'm a pretty avid reader, but I missed feminism in college. I did take an intro course where I read Mary Wollstonecraft, but I didn't read a lot of the seminal writers. Then I had two teenage...

I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.

My dream when I was younger was that my parents could watch me on television.

I think the way I love talking about my faith is through my story because I think that's all we have to work with sometimes. I think it's the most moving way to share your story, too - is what you...

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.

We only fear what we don't understand, and I hate to be scared.

I think therapy can also be a bit of a weird thing, because it's amazing, and I think it's so vital, and it's helped me in so many ways, but it also does uncover things that you probably would never...

Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a...

I always have a different way of looking at things.

I had been laughed at my whole life through school, and I never really thought of it as a vocation. I mean, I started off as a soldier, and then I went into the university thinking I was going to be a...