To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.