Dancing gives an innate physical awareness - it's physical training. Acting feels like the same medium but just with words.

- Elizabeth Debicki

You think there's a rule book, in a way, until you realize there's absolutely no rule book, and you can use a red carpet to express something about yourself. There are so many wonderful designers in the world, and they create such wonderful things. Why go with something uninteresting?

- Elizabeth Debicki

A dancer's life is as peripatetic and unstable as that of an actor's. You're freelancing yourself all the time, and a dancer's lifespan is even shorter than an actor's: once they turn 30 or 35, they have to stop.

- Elizabeth Debicki

When I went to the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne to study drama, I felt I'd finally found my place in life.

- Elizabeth Debicki

Television is the medium that's allowing women's stories to flourish.

- Elizabeth Debicki

Often, you're not quite sure what people have seen you in, but the script lands in your inbox. That was the case with 'The Night Manager.'

- Elizabeth Debicki

Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.

- Elizabeth Debicki

It's tricky territory, height and co-stars. The only thing I can say is that it's never been an issue in my life.

- Elizabeth Debicki

I think that if you're lucky enough to work with a stylist who pulls a rack from the beginning that you love everything on it, that's a blessing.

- Elizabeth Debicki

I don't think it's healthy to buy into hype in any form, whether it's positive or negative. You have to exist in yourself and just move on with life.

- Elizabeth Debicki

I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.

- Elizabeth Debicki

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

- Elizabeth Debicki

Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.

- Elizabeth Debicki

Baz Luhrmann is a very visual director. He needs to see things as they would unfold in his world.

- Elizabeth Debicki

As a child, I got bored with my surroundings, so I would be another person for a little while.

- Elizabeth Debicki

A good night in is a series of documentaries.

- Elizabeth Debicki

I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting 'Gatsby', so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented.

- Elizabeth Debicki

I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.

- Elizabeth Debicki

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

- Elizabeth Debicki

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

- Elizabeth Debicki