You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.