“In Australia, I can just say to my mom, 'I'm going down the street.' A...” — Kodi Smit-McPhee Quote

“In Australia, I can just say to my mom, 'I'm going down the street.' And I can walk around pretty much all the places I know.”

“I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.”

“I'm always working with amazing people. They're just kind of put in my path.”

“Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.”

“I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one.”

“I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered my own career into playing the great roles that I've played on stage in Australia and at the National and West End in London and on Broadway.”