I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?'

As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

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