Quotes by Margot Robbie

Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.

Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.

Probably not for about 10 years, because I've got so much to do before then, but I really want to have four kids ... I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such a good lifestyle.

I'm a bit of a tomboy.

I feel much more comfortable either up in a tree, or underwater. That's where I feel the most zen.

Scent has become a way for me to differentiate characters.

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

I feel like I'm pretty good at doing my own makeup. I've watched a lot of people do my makeup, so I've been able to gauge what looks good and what doesn't.

I really need a hairstylist to do my hair if it's going to look good.

I have like three hairs left on my head. A hairstylist will come in and put all this fake hair in and it looks luscious and amazing. And I'm like, god, I feel a thousand times better.

I always dress kind of monochromatic and very simple and all that kind of stuff.

My spirit animal is a monkey. Because I have really long arms and I like being up high.

I make my friends pull up their profiles and I'm like, Show me everything.

I send thank you notes, not emails, even if I'm staying at a friend's house or something. I'm very old school.

I know that my look is more toothpaste model as opposed to artsy, which sucks because I can play those roles.

I don't even know how to Direct Message someone on Instagram. I still write letters.

I have big feet. Do you know how embarrassing it is when you ask for a shoe and they look at you like, No, we don't make these heels for Bigfoot, sorry.

I'm pretty open, and when I do interviews, I end up blabbing.

If people are talking about me, I want it to be because of the work I'm doing and not the person I'm seeing.

Honestly, my dating life according to the tabloids is very exciting, and the most hilarious thing is that it's nowhere near as exciting as the tabloids have ever made it out to be.

There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!

It was actually nice to get a fresh, clean slate when I came to America.

People don't really know about 'Neighbours' in America, and if they have heard of it, it's only in the context of 'Oh, sure, that's what Guy Pearce was on', or Kylie Minogue.

If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.

You don't leave Australia unless you are passionate. Any Australian actor who comes to America is really committed. There are no dabblers -- it's all or nothing.

It seems to be the way I get jobs -- I book a holiday, I get to the other side of the world, then I'll get the job.

I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.

I was devastated when I had to go blonde.

Initially I thought: 'I would never get cast opposite Will Smith! No one would ever buy it with the age difference, our personalities.' I can't think of a couple that makes less sense in every way, shape and form.

It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on a soap than it is on a big studio film.

My mum is just the sweetest person on Earth, and if I turned into her, I wouldn't be that upset at all; in fact, it would be an honour.

I get very into my sports.

I have never been a cynical person.

When I eat, I have to chop up everything on the plate and stir it all together. It devastates my mom. Everyone at the table is like, 'That looks like cat vomit.' And I stir my Coke with a spoon until it's flat.

It's just terrible: I miss flights all the time, more than I probably catch one.

The two things I've been told most often since my career took off -- by taxi drivers, lifelong friends and everyone in between -- have been, 'Don't ever change, Margot' and 'You can't do that anymore, Margot.'

Ironically, I don't like having cameras in my face.

There is a real sense of family when you're around Australians, even if you don't know them.

Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.

If there aren't roles you want to play, then you've kind of got to create them.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find the right job which will bring me home to shoot.

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

If I looked good in 'Wolf of Wall Street,' I cannot take full credit; it was because of the hair extensions and makeup.

I really want to do a Western. I want to be the dude who is riding horses and doing exciting things -- something where I get to do something physical and have to train for it. I don't want to be the damsel.

I know that my look is more 'toothpaste model' as opposed to artsy, which sucks because I can play those roles.

I made a conscious decision not to date actors.

I learned a lot about pain and suffering during 'Pan Am.' We had to wear very constricting period-correct girdles and bras. After that, I learned to read a script with an eye toward the undergarments.

I now know how to steal a watch when someone's wearing it. It's an excellent talent to have.

I kind of like pony tails, beards, maybe a tattoo. My massive obsession -- I'm really targeting a niche market here -- a hair lip.

I live with three boys, and I can't tell you how hard it is to get your hands on toilet paper. They steal it.

I have no concept of modesty anymore.

Where I'm from on the Gold Coast, we say that there are a lot of 'cashed-up Bogans,' you know, people with no class but a lot of money.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

I always wanted to play ice hockey back in Australia, I'm not sure why, but we didn't have any ice where I lived. It was very hot -- a coastal town.

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

I'm not a massive 'Star Trek' fan.

To do all your own stunts, you have to be so strong.

It's almost impossible to get a movie all together when there are two main cast members, let alone an ensemble cast with everyone's schedules. It's crazy if it works out.

I'm definitely looking forward to doing a film one day with more female actors.

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

I kind of left everyone behind in Australia -- all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend.

New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.

If I have to get into a bikini, then I eat carrot sticks for three days.

I have to keep explaining to people that screen kissing isn't quite the same; it's close, but it isn't quite the same as a normal, real-life kiss.

I was always very dramatic -- my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' -- as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.

I'm never happier than when I'm on set.

I get miserable if I don't eat.

Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.

My jet lag is getting a bit ridiculous. But, you know, it's first-world problems. It's a wonderful problem, 'Oh I have to travel around the world; how awful.'

I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It's like, in real life, I've got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who's twice their age, and they're equally in love.

I gravitate towards monochromes. I always sort of either wear white or black or cream. I really like wearing colorful things as well, but I'm a sucker for cream-colored.

It's always good to have a story arch.

I swear I'm not bossy in any other aspect of my life -- it's just on set.

I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times.

As much as I'd only like to concentrate on the creative side of acting, the whole business in general is just that -- a business -- and you have to do your homework if you want to be successful.

Once people see you pulling off one role, they think you're a safe bet to do a similar role.

There is something about being people from your home country in a different country. It bonds you together.

Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.

I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic -- not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk.

If someone's gonna pick between me and Emma Stone, they're gonna pick Emma Stone.

The '60s are my favorite decade -- with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.

Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.

People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile; it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.

'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.

I'm not extravagant. I share my house in London with five roommates. I take the Tube. I intend to stay the exact same person I always was.

I love flying so much. I even like airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can't have emails go through. It's undisturbed.

I've got big, big dreams for the future.

A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.

People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.

Any time I have any time off, I try to travel.

I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway.

I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.