Once people see you pulling off one role, they think you're a safe bet to do a similar role.
— Margot Robbie
Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.
'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.
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.
It was actually nice to get a fresh, clean slate when I came to America.
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.
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'm a bit of a tomboy.
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.'
A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.
I always have more fun when I stay in hostels - you just meet so many more people. A hotel makes sense when you're doing work things, but travelling, you don't really get a feel for a place if you're in a hotel. I find it seems to make it all feel like everywhere else.
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.
It's always good to have a story arch.
I have never been a cynical person.
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.
I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.
I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.
Chemistry is so important and so unpredictable. Sometimes you get in a room with someone where aesthetically you make perfect sense as a couple, and then you read, and you're both kind of sitting there like, 'This isn't working for some strange reason; it just doesn't really pop.'
I'm pretty open, and when I do interviews, I end up blabbing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.
I was devastated when I had to go blonde.
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 get very into my sports.
The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.
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.
I'm never happier than when I'm on set.
There is something about being people from your home country in a different country. It bonds you together.
Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.
No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.
'Wolf of Wall Street' opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities.
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.
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!
I swear I'm not bossy in any other aspect of my life - it's just on set.
If I have to get into a bikini, then I eat carrot sticks for three days.
My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It's a bit of a mess to watch!
I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.
I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.
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.
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.
It's just terrible: I miss flights all the time, more than I probably catch one.
I say this about everything: when I was on 'Neighbours,' I said, 'These are the best years of my life!' When I was filming 'The Wolf Of Wall Street,' I said, 'These are the best months of my life!' I always think I'm having the best time ever, and that I'll never have so much fun again.
There is a real sense of family when you're around Australians, even if you don't know them.
