If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.

His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

I never really think about my gender, first and foremost - until a door is closed to you. Until you can see a parallel opportunity with a man in a similar place in his career and you think, That opportunity is not open to me or my fellow actresses. That's interesting.

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.

Film just chews up actors like nobody's business, and I'm not particularly interested in being chewed up. I think the camera can only look at somebody's face for so long. I guess you have to accept the roles you think are right at the time. You can build a career, but these days there doesn't seem to be that much interest in people being actors.