I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

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

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

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.