People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, "No, it's for me."

I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class at school. In Australia, a lot of students study to the end of year 10, but don't go on to the final year, and I was asked to leave the school because they just thought I wasn't performing well enough. I used to sneak off to play piano, and defy the rules of the school.

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.